Description: This is a small crustose lichen of the ‘bark pimple’ tribe with a creamy-white to grey, slightly powdery thallus. It can look rather similar in the field to Anisomeridium ranunculosporum. It differs, however, in the thread-like spores (< seven-septate) not pinched at the septa, and in having a thin dark brown layer (involucrellum) over the perithecial disc, rather than a thick black one. It occurs mostly on holly and birch and is scattered in Ireland.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus creamy white, powdery; spores thread-like with less than seven-septa
• Involucrellum thin, weak, brownish; on smooth bark of holly and birch.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Rhaphidicyrtis trichosporella at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.