Irish lichens
Lichenicolous fungi
Lichenicolous fungi
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Basidiomycota Family: Corticiaceae
Species: Laetisaria lichenicola # Photos: On Physcia. Co. Limerick, Ireland. A pink lichenicolous fungus that develops immersed in the host thallus. While the basiospores are being produced it becomes minutely powdery but then dssolves into a thin pink film. Probably widespread on the thalli of Physcia adscendens and Physcia tenella but not recognised until 2015 Similar: Marchandiomyces corallinus with pink coralloid sclerotia. Illosporiopsis christiansenii with pink mounds of soft sporodichia |
Laetisaria lichenicola #. Co. Limerick 2019