Cladonia pyxidata

Description:

"Pixie-cup lichen" with funnel-shaped podetia tapering gradually towards the base, exterior variably clothed with corticate granules and sometimes also with small squamules, interior with conspicuous, disk-like, corticate granules (sometimes developing into squamules within the cup), soredia absent; basal squamules small, lacking pink tints, margins flat, smooth; apothecia brown, globose, more or less sessile on the podetial margins or on very short, stalk-like proliferations (<5mm).

Habitat:

Between the moss in a pine tree forest. Sierra de Guadarrama

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/60 sec., f/32, ISO Speed Rating: 400. Focal Length: 90.0 mm. Flash fired