Leptogium burgessii is a species of foliose lichen in the family Collemataceae. The species was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1774 and transferred to Leptogium by Camille Montagne in 1840. It forms leafy greyish to brownish patches distinguished by a velvety lower surface covered with short cream-coloured hairs composed of spherical cells. In Europe, L. burgessii has an oceanic Atlantic distribution, occurring from the Canary Islands through north-western Iberia to south-western Norway, where it grows on tree bark and mossy rocks in humid forests.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Leptogium burgessii being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Scytinium lichenoides
- Leptochidium albociliatum
- Scytinium dactylinum
- Nephroma helveticum
- Leptogium phyllocarpum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Peltigerales
- Family
- Collemataceae
- Genus
- Leptogium
- Species
- Leptogium burgessii
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