Collema flaccidum (Ach.) Ach.

    Thallus foliose, more or less rosette-shaped, composed of large lobes, 1-1.5 cm wide, often ascending, membrane-like, elasticated, thin and not re-inflating, or very little by humidity, smooth, irregularly or little rumpled or wavy, covered with laminal or marginal isidia, more or less globose at first becoming squamulose or even for the larger ones scaly (like reptile skin!), 0.2-0.5 mm, dark greenish, olive-brown when moist, almost dark or soot-like  when dry. Apothecia absent or very scarce, 0.5-2.5 mm diam., disc flat, brown-red, thalline margin persistent. Ascospores fusiform, 3-5-septate, 20-40 x 6-8 µm according to the literature; 20-38 x 5-6 µm according to our measurements. Photobiont: Nostoc. Chemical spot tests negative. Rather common on humid and sheltered rocks near river banks, and also on vertical walls of humid rocks subjected to water seepage.

_ See  Collema subflaccidum that is rather similar but which occurs mainly on the bark of trees and rarely on rocks and whose spores are 5-7 septate.

_ See also  Collema furfuraceum of which lobes are more folded, rumpled and isidia coralloid, and Collema auriforme of which lobes and isidia swell when subjected to humidity, and Collema crispum with numerous secondary lobes.