Villophora

Villophora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the subfamily Teloschistoideae of the family Teloschistaceae. Eight species are accepted in the genus. First circumscribed in 2013 and confirmed by a 2021 DNA study, the genus forms a well-supported branch of the Teloschistaceae alongside Josefpoeltia and the better-known Teloschistes. Villophora species make tiny crust-like to thread-like growths coloured by orange anthraquinone pigments and spread mainly by clouds of powdery reproductive granules. They occupy windswept Southern Hemisphere habitats from Patagonia to the Antarctic Peninsula, living on rock, bark or decaying wood in some of the coldest lichen environments on Earth....read more on Wikipedia.