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Chaenotheca cinerea
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About
Chaenotheca cinerea is a species of pin lichen in the family Coniocybaceae. This small lichen forms grey-white crusts on tree bark and produces distinctive microscopic fruiting bodies that resemble tiny pins, each standing only 0.6–1 mm tall with thread-thin stalks topped by dark spore-bearing heads. Originally described in 1800 from specimens found in oak bark crevices, it is characterised by its two-toned stalks that are pale at the base and dark at the top, covered with a thick white powdery coating.
- Family
- Coniocybaceae
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- Name
- Chaenotheca cinerea
- Slug
- chaenotheca-cinerea
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Coniocybaceae
- Genus
- Chaenotheca
- Species
- cinerea
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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