Collema coccophorum

{{Short description|Species of fungus}} {{Speciesbox | image = Collema coccophorum - Mushroom Observer.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Collema coccophorum | authority = Tuck. (1862) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="urlFungorum synonymy: Collema coccophorum"/> | synonyms = *''Collema atrum'' F.Wilson (1891) *''Collema congestum'' F.Wilson (1891) *''Synechoblastus congesta'' (F.Wilson) F.Wilson (1893) *''Synechoblastus coccophorus'' (Tuck.) Fink (1909) }}

'''''Collema coccophorum''''' is a cyanolichen also known as '''soil pulp lichen''' or '''jelly lichen'''. It can be found in many areas of the world, including North America, Eastern Europe and Norway, Australia, and South America. It has also been recorded in Antarctica.<ref name="Øvstedal 2001"/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Øvstedal 2001">{{cite book |author=Øvstedal DO, Lewis Smith RI. |title=Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia: A Guide to Their Identification and Ecology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBmsSpAkd3EC&pg=PA176 |year=2001 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-66241-3 |page=176}}</ref>

<ref name="urlFungorum synonymy: Collema coccophorum">{{cite web |title=Synonymy: ''Collema coccophorum'' Tuck. |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=383209 |publisher=Species Fungorum. CAB International |accessdate=2014-11-20}}</ref>

}} *"The lichen genus ''Collema'' in Europe: morphology, taxonomy, ecology" G Degelius - Symb. Bot. Upsal, 1954 *"The lichen genus ''Collema'' with special reference to the extra-European species" G Degelius - 1974 - Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala

Category:Peltigerales Category:Lichen species Category:Lichens described in 1862 Category:Fungi of Australia Category:Fungi of North America Category:Fungi of Europe Category:Fungi of South America Category:Taxa named by Edward Tuckerman