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Acantholichen

Acantholichen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Acantholichen
P.M.Jørg. (1998)
Type species
Acantholichen pannarioides
P.M.Jørg. (1998)

Acantholichen is a fungal genus in the family Hygrophoraceae. A monotypic genus it contains a single species, the basidiolichen Acantholichen pannariodes, discovered originally in Costa Rica in 1998. This species has a bluish, gelatinous thallus, and a fine, white powdery bloom covering the hairy upper surface; this surface is said to resemble "an unshaven chin".


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