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Dictyonema lichen Dictyonema is a symbiosis between a basidiomycete fungi and a scytonematoid cyanobacteria, making it both a basidiolichen and a cyanolichen, a rare combination that makes it more related to mushrooms than to other lichens.<br />
Habitat:<br />
Cerro de la Muerte.          Costa Rica,Dictyonema glabratum,Geotagged,Spring Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Dictyonema lichen

Dictyonema is a symbiosis between a basidiomycete fungi and a scytonematoid cyanobacteria, making it both a basidiolichen and a cyanolichen, a rare combination that makes it more related to mushrooms than to other lichens.
Habitat:
Cerro de la Muerte.

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Dictyonema glabratum is a fungus in the Dictyonema genus.

Similar species: Agaricales
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Aug 7, 2016. Captured Apr 21, 2014 19:29 in Calle San Gerardo, Cartago, Dota, Costa Rica.
  • XZ-1
  • f/1.8
  • 1/60s
  • ISO160
  • 6mm