Description: Rare in Ireland and restricted to the Kerry woodlands, this small, crustose epiphyte has a scurfy grey-white thallus (sometime slightly pinkish) scattered with tiny, lobate discs, like black, paw prints, finely veiled with pruina. The spores are three- to four-septate and lacking an enlarged upper cell. It is an acid-tree bark species. On holly in Ireland but also likely to occur on birch, oak and pine.

Key Identification Features:

• Scurfy or snowy-grey thallus with tiny black, nodulose-lobed discs
• Discs with a fine white frosting, spores three- to four-septate; holly in ancient woodland.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

Distribution Map from NBN: Felipes leucopellaeus at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Felipes leucopellaeus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.