Lichens are widespread throughout Girraween and may be easily found growing on exposed rock or on the shaded trunks of forest trees.
Some lichens are flat and look like splotches of paint - "crustose". Others look leafy - "foliose ", while others still look like tiny plants - "fruticose".
This brightly coloured crustose lichen was growing on a highly exposed expanse of granite at the south end of the Mt Norman track.
This faintly pinkish Usnea sp. has some features of Usnea rubicunda var. spilota.
It was growing on a tree near the Visitor Information Centre. It is a fruticose lichen.
A foliose lichen growing on granite.
This quite a common lichen in Girraween.
