Verrucariopsis

Verrucariopsis is a small genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae, containing two species found in European coastal habitats. The genus was proposed in 2022 after the discovery of an unusual lichen growing on the stems of the salt marsh shrub Suaeda vera in Brittany, France. Species form a granular, greenish crust and produce flask-shaped fruiting bodies with colourless ascospores. The type species, V. suaedae, grows on shrub bark in the upper reaches of salt marshes flooded only by the highest tides, while V. halophila is primarily found on rocks in the intertidal zone. Molecular studies place the genus in a lineage of maritime lichens that includes Wahlenbergiella and Mastodia....read more on Wikipedia.