Chaenotheca chrysocephala

Thallus crustose, epiphyte, bright yellow coarse ecorticate granules.
Apothecia frequent, stalked and pin-like, 0.6-1.3 mm tall. Stalk 0.04-0.08 mm thick, brown, with a yellow pruina at least in the upper part.
Asci cylindrical, 14-19 x 2-3.5 µm; Ascospores 1-celled, brown, uniseriate, short ellipsoid to globose, 6-9 x 4-6 µm, with a coarse and irregular ornamentation.
Photobiont Trebouxia.
Spot test negative.
Chemistry: thallus and apothecial pruina with vulpinic acid.
Habitat: 
On bark and wood of conifers and more rarely on deciduous trees. Mountain and subalpine areas.
Distribution: Boreal-temperate from Europe, Asia, North and Central America, Australasia. 
Position in classification: Coniocybaceae, Coniocybales, Incertae sedis, Coniocybomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. 

Locality data:
Location: Bon Repòs, Gavet de la Conca (Pallars Jussà)
Ecology: On the base of a trunk of Pinus sylvestris.
Altitude: 1,060 m
Climate: Eastern Pre-pyrenean Mediterranean (Tmm=11,0ºC, P=750 mm)

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