Substrate and Habitat. Corticolous on trees; muscicolous on mosses and liverworts.
Distribution. Pantropical to southeastern North America; in North Carolina found in the Coastal Plain ecoregion.
Literature
Lücking, R., M. Dal-Forno, J.D. Lawrey, F. Bungartz, M.E.H. Rojas, J.E. Hernandez, M.P. Marcelli, B. Moncada, E.A. Morales, M.P. Nelsen, E. Paz, L. Salcedo, A.A. Spielmann, K. Wilk, S. Will-Wolf & A. Yanez-Ayabaca (2013) Ten new species of lichenized Basidiomycota in the genera Dictyonema and Cora. Phytotaxa139(1): 1-38.
Sprengel, C.P.J. (1820) Plantarum cryptogamicarum tropicarum pugillus. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlinger. Ser. 3, 8: 46-53 (original description as Dematium thelephora).