Milospium lacoizquetae

A lichenicolous hyphomycetes found as sooty patches of conidia on the thalli of Cladonia parasitica and C. polydactyla. The black conidia are highly distinctive being irregularly folded with unevenly thickened walls. Rarely recorded on Cladonia species in woods. Almost invariably associated with infections by Arthonia digitatae on Cladonia squamules and potentailly the anamorph of this species.