Description: This rare epiphyte of nutrient-rich bark (for example, elder) has a whitish granular thallus and grey-black margined discs with needle-like spores that are three- to seven-septate. The epithecium is green in K. B. absistens has larger (45-80&

371;m) and longer 7- to 14-septate spores. A few inland records; scattered.

Key Identification Features:

• Whitish thallus and grey-black discs; spores 30-50ųm long, three- to seven-septate
• On nutrient-rich bark; commonly on elder.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Bacidina friesiana at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.