Incertae sedis Corticifraga fuckelii # Lichenicolous fungus, photographs on Peltigera didactyla Usually parasitic on Peltigera species. Rare on Nephroma laevigatum. BLS conservation evaluation: LC NS Immersed and sometimes confluent whitish to pale browm ascomata, 0.2-0.5mm diam. Asci are 8-spored, spores hyaline, 1-septate, 12-16 x 4-6 µm. Microscope photograph below. Hawksworthiana peltigericola is possibly the conidial stage. Similar: Corticifraga peltigerae. The ascomata are black and the spores brown, 3-septate.

Microscope photograph

Corticifraga fuckelii
On Peltigera didactyla. Studland Heath, Dorset. Dorset 2013