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Xyloschistes platytropa
Xyloschistes is a fungal genus in the family Stictidaceae. It is monospecific, containing the single species Xyloschistes platytropa. This fungus is a wood-dwelling species that typically develops subcortically: a thin, whitish thallus forms beneath bark on old timber and dead pine branches, and small black fruiting bodies later break through to the surface. It is known from Finland, where it was first collected in the 1860s, and has also been reported from Spain. In Finland it...
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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 453066.