Pixie-Hair Lichen
Scientific Name: Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Common Name: Pixie-Hair Lichen
Certainty: sure of genus (notes)
Location: Florida Panhandle; Appalachicola NF
Date: 20070110
Close-up of apothecial disks and algae filaments, at 30x. The fungus imperceptibly encases the wispy strands of dark greenish algae. (It is visible -- barely -- only at 400x-1000x under a compound microscope.)
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Pixie-Hair Lichen
Scientific Name: Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Common Name: Pixie-Hair Lichen
Certainty: sure of genus (notes)
Location: Florida Panhandle; Appalachicola NF
Date: 20070110
Close-up of apothecial disks and algae filaments, at 30x. The fungus imperceptibly encases the wispy strands of dark greenish algae. (It is visible -- barely -- only at 400x-1000x under a compound microscope.)
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Uploaded on August 2, 2007
Taken on August 1, 2007