Natural History Photographs


Gencek (Konya)
30 April 2014


Third stop, including lunch, along the D687. A nice very steep rock, with many crevices that never receive any rainfall. Some lichens grow only in such rain-protected sites and I was keen to find them. They fully depend on water vapour for their water supply, something very special.







Pleurosticta acetabulum


Toninia candida
Toninia spec.


Circinaria contorta


Lecanora cf. muralis


Endocarpon pusillum


Circinaria calcarea


Lecanora pruinosa


Caloplaca s.l. spec.


Gyalolechia fulgens


Caloplaca s.l. spec.


Leproplaca cf. xantholyta