Tall moss on pink lichen, La Cocha Páramo, Colombia

The Páramo plant/fungi life is so weird that I struggle to comprehend what we saw. My deciphering here is that this is a pink lichen which has very lengthy finger-like mosses growing out of it. Here's the same pink lichen separately:

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Christine Young

Lion

That moss is wild! Posted 6 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  In hindsight we should have had another day, and then for that day to only photograph every single plant, lichen, moss. I'm afraid all we've got are some quick smartphone snaps of our brief visit. I also noted online this ecosystem is very poorly documented. Posted 6 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    Smartphone pics are better than nothing, and can actually be pretty good, in my opinion. I'm pretty sure that I would tweak in a habitat like that...it would be so hard to walk away without hours and hours of exploration, of which I would probably never be truly "satisfied". Posted 6 years ago
  2. 1. Ferdy Christant
      
      Lion
      
      Lol you would go wild in the Paramo, I'm sure! Same for every cloud forest, they are so richly decorated with life. Posted 6 years ago

The Pink earth lichen

''Dibaeis baeomyces'', commonly known as pink earth lichen, is a fruticose lichen belonging to the family Icmadophilaceae. The species was first described by Linnaeus.

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Similar species: Lecanorales

Species identified by Ferdy Christant