Description: This is a rather inconspicuous species that has often been recorded wrongly in the field. It is about the size of L. subtile but forms its brown cushions, complete with coral-like warts, among mosses in calcareous grassland. The discs are reddish-brown with a thick rim and attached lobules. The spores are muriform.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus very small, brown, cushion-like; among mosses on calcareous soils
• Discs with a thick rim; spores muriform.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Scytinium tenuissimum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.