Description: The thallus of this common pollution-tolerant lichen is a crinkled mat of bright green scales (squamules). From here arise battalions of green-grey stalks (podetia), each tapering to a point sometimes becoming twisted into the shape of a bent nail or question mark. The stalks are scaly and incised below remaining finely powdery above. On rotting tree stumps, logs and mossy tree bases.

Key Identification Features:

• Habitat of rotting stumps and mossy tree bases
• Grey-green stalks resembling bent nails usually tapering to a fine point.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Cladonia coniocraea at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.