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Blood whiskers

Chaenotheca ferruginea

1,120Records since 2000
MayPeak month
52Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan72
Feb84
Mar76
Apr106
May132
Jun113
Jul98
Aug70
Sep85
Oct119
Nov68
Dec36

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland84
2Gloucestershire England55
3Cambridgeshire England54
4Herefordshire, County of England54
5Perth and Kinross Scotland45
6Powys Wales42
7Scottish Borders Scotland38
8Devon England34
9East Lothian Scotland34
10Midlothian Scotland34
11Worcestershire England27
12Kent England18
13Carmarthenshire Wales18
14Norfolk England16
15Suffolk England15
740 England284 Scotland76 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,120
Peak month
May
Counties with records
52
Scientific name
Chaenotheca ferruginea
Group
Lichens
NBN Atlas records since 2000
72
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Coniocybomycetes
Order
Coniocybales
Family
Coniocybaceae
Genus
Chaenotheca
Name with authority
Chaenotheca ferruginea (Turner ex Sm.) Mig.
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10657199 · GBIF 5470056