Zahlbrucknerella africana

Zahlbrucknerella africana is a little-known species of lichen in the family Lichinaceae. It was first described in 1977 from specimens collected on wet volcanic rock in the mountains of Lesotho, where it forms shiny olive-black tufts of thread-like filaments. The species is distinguished by its brown fruiting bodies that contain unusually large numbers of spores, and it grows exclusively on permanently damp volcanic rock faces rather than limestone. It remains known only from its original discovery location in the Drakensberg highlands of southern Africa....read more on Wikipedia.