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[Pyrrhospora russula]

Pyrrhospora russula (Ach.) Haf. in Kalb & Haf.
Brazil, photo kindly provided by Adriano Spielmann.
A widespread epiphyte in the tropics, on smooth bark in rather light places, often in gardens and secundary vegetation. Conspicuous are the orange-red apothecia without thalline margin.

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