Description: This crustose, ‘pin-head’ lichen grows on the wood of hollow trunks (holly especially) and in dry-bark crevices. It has an immersed thallus. The head and short stalks have a dense, yellow-green dusting of pruina and a dark brown spore mass. The spores are almost spherical. In Ireland, the species is known from County Fermanagh and west Donegal.

Key Identification Features:

• Immersed thallus (C. furfuracea has a distinct powdery thallus)
• Head and stalk with a bright, yellow-green coating of pruina and dark brown spores mass.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Coniocybe brachypoda at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.