Notes: Location: 35°12’48.33"N, 85°54’14.26"W, el. 524 m. Piney Point Trail.

Substrate: Growing on the loose soil of a small berm bordering a footpath through open pine-oak woodland..

Habitat: Low, open, pine-oak woodland on thin sandy soil over sandstone at the edge of the western escarpment of the Cumberland Plateau.

References:
Sharnoff’s Dibaeis baeomyces gallery
CNALH images, description, and locality map, and a larger, interactive locality map.

Common name: pink earth lichen