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Calycidium
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Calycidium

Calycidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Sphaerophoraceae. It has two species. It is one of the few lichen genera containing foliose (leafy) species that produce a mazaedium – a powdery mass of spores. Both species occur in Australasia and South America, where they grow on tree bark or on mosses.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Calycidium cuneatum

speciesCalycidium cuneatum

Calycidium polycarpum

speciesCalycidium polycarpum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 378800.