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Acantholichen

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Rank
  
Genus

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Family
  
Hygrophoraceae

Order
  
Agaricales

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Similar
  
Agaricales, Dictyonema, Lepidostromatales, Eonema, Pseudoarmillariella

Acantholichen is a fungal genus in the family Hygrophoraceae. A monotypic genus it contains a single species, the basidiolichen Acantholichen pannariodes, discovered originally in Costa Rica in 1998. This species has a bluish, gelatinous thallus, and a fine, white powdery bloom covering the hairy upper surface; this surface is said to resemble "an unshaven chin".

References

Acantholichen Wikipedia