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Pilophorus fruticosus
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About
Pilophorus fruticosus is a little-known species of rock-dwelling fruticose lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was described in 2011 by Chinese scientists from specimens collected in Yunnan Province, southwestern China. The lichen forms a small greyish crust on rock surfaces from which arise branching, shrub-like stalks that repeatedly fork and end in single black, spherical fruiting bodies. It is known only from two closely spaced locations in the Cang Mountain range, where it grows on exposed ridges at around 3,500 metres elevation among open conifer-rhododendron woodland.
- Family
- Cladoniaceae
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- Name
- Pilophorus fruticosus
- Slug
- pilophorus-fruticosus
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Cladoniaceae
- Genus
- Pilophorus
- Species
- fruticosus
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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