Description: The thallus of this ‘pin-lichen’ is powdery leprose, and bright, sulphur-yellow at its best. In the sterile, non-fruiting state, it could be mistaken for Psilolechia lucida. The ‘pins’ are between 1.6 and 2.6mm tall. It is a species of humid, soily hollows below eroding banks where the thallus can quickly develop along the surface of exposed tree roots. In Ireland, the species appears most abundant in the north-east and south-west.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus yellowy-green, powdery; frequently without discs
• On exposed, thread-like tree roots especially in eroded hollows.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Coniocybe furfuracea at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.