Cladonia bellidiflora

Description:

The thallus scales of Cladonia bellidiflora are usually dense, small, incised to notched or slit and easily breaking off. While the top is gray-green, the underside looks white and dying to the base of the podetium ocher to dark brown even dying. The stems ( podiatry ) are up to 5 cm long and slightly curved in age. They are thickly scaly or flaccidly covered, grayish-green and ocher-colored to dark brown and pointedly converging. The fruit bodies ( apothecia ) are red partly bulky, single, heaped or growing together.-Wikipedia

Habitat:

Spotted on a large rotting stump.