Bactrospora brodoi

Bactrospora brodoi Egea & Torrente

Edibility

Edibility unknown — do not eat

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Lookalikes

No lookalikes are recorded for this species yet. That does not mean there are none. Many mushrooms look alike, so never rely on appearance alone.

Season

When this species has been recorded, by month, from open-licensed US and Canada observations. It shows when people report it, not a guarantee it is fruiting.

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Recorded observations of Bactrospora brodoi by month
Month	Records
January	1
February	0
March	2
April	0
May	0
June	0
July	2
August	8
September	1
October	0
November	0
December	0

Where it is found

States and provinces with the most records. Check the foraging rules for the place you plan to visit.

New Brunswick 6 records · Foraging rules
California 3 records · Foraging rules
Quebec 2 records · Foraging rules

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About

Bactrospora brodoi is a corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen of uncertain family placement in the order Arthoniales. Described in 1993 by José María Egea and Pilar Torrente and named for the Canadian lichenologist Irwin M. Brodo, it forms a very thin, mostly immersed pale film with tiny black, rimless discs and produces very slender, many-celled ascospores; a conspicuous asexual stage with larger pycnidia is frequent in Fennoscandia and parts of eastern Canada. The species is rare and boreal, known from eastern Canada and Fennoscandia, with a doubtful outlier reported from coastal California. It favours long-continuity, humid spruce forests, especially the dead, bark-covered lower twigs of very old Norway spruce (Picea abies); in Canada it also occurs on yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis) and eastern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis) in swampy stands. Forestry that removes veteran host trees or dries these habitats is the main threat; it is assessed as critically endangered in Norway, vulnerable in Sweden, and regionally extinct in Finland.

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