Dictyonema caespitosum

Dictyonema caespitosum is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae.^[2] Found in Brazil, it was originally described in 1884 by the Chilean botanist Federico Johow, as Laudatea caespitosa.^[1] Robert Lücking transferred it to the genus Dictyonema in 2013. Its thallus typically grows over bryophytes, forming a thin mat of appressed, predominantly horizontal fibrils that are pale greenish-blue in color. Reproductive structures are rarely observed, with the species usually found in a sterile state. Clamp connections are present in the hyphae.^[3]

Dictyonema caespitosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Hygrophoraceae
Genus:	Dictyonema
Species:	D. caespitosum
Binomial name
Dictyonema caespitosum (Johow) Lücking (2013)
Synonyms[1]
Laudatea caespitosa Johow (1884) Dictyonema sericeum f. caespitosa (Johow) P.Metzner (1934)