Cladonia macilenta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Cladoniaceae |
Genus: | Cladonia |
Species: | C. macilenta
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Binomial name | |
Cladonia macilenta
Hoffm. (1796)
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Synonyms | |
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Cladonia macilenta or the lipstick cup lichen [1] is a species of cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. [2]
The species is red listed in Iceland as an endangered species (EN). [3] While it is found in various regions of the UK, it is considered potentially threatened in parts of the lowlands due to habitat loss. [4]
Verrucaster lichenicola, described by Friedrich Tobler in 1913, [5] was proposed to be a fungus with waxy pycnidia and hyaline conidia lacking septa. It was, however, a little-known taxon, as the type specimen was lost and not collected again. The rediscovery of the type material more than a century later revealed that what Tobler thought to be a lichenicolous fungus was instead pycnidia of Cladonia macilenta, and thus the two taxa are placed in synonymy. [6]
Cladonia macilenta is small- to medium-sized amongst other Cladonia species and notably lacks cups even at maturity. [4] Typically, it is found in open or well-lit wooded areas and heathlands growing on strongly acidic wood and soil. It is often mistaken for Cladonia polydactyla, [4] because some morphs of that species can lack cups, particularly when pollution-stressed, shaded, or juvenile. but C. macilenta can be differentiated coloration (C. macilenta is typically white or grey, while C. polydactyla is typically blue-grey) or by the reproductive structures ( soredia) which are granular in C. polydactyla and more mealy ( farinose) in C. macilenta. [4]
Cladonia macilenta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Cladoniaceae |
Genus: | Cladonia |
Species: | C. macilenta
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Binomial name | |
Cladonia macilenta
Hoffm. (1796)
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Synonyms | |
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Cladonia macilenta or the lipstick cup lichen [1] is a species of cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. [2]
The species is red listed in Iceland as an endangered species (EN). [3] While it is found in various regions of the UK, it is considered potentially threatened in parts of the lowlands due to habitat loss. [4]
Verrucaster lichenicola, described by Friedrich Tobler in 1913, [5] was proposed to be a fungus with waxy pycnidia and hyaline conidia lacking septa. It was, however, a little-known taxon, as the type specimen was lost and not collected again. The rediscovery of the type material more than a century later revealed that what Tobler thought to be a lichenicolous fungus was instead pycnidia of Cladonia macilenta, and thus the two taxa are placed in synonymy. [6]
Cladonia macilenta is small- to medium-sized amongst other Cladonia species and notably lacks cups even at maturity. [4] Typically, it is found in open or well-lit wooded areas and heathlands growing on strongly acidic wood and soil. It is often mistaken for Cladonia polydactyla, [4] because some morphs of that species can lack cups, particularly when pollution-stressed, shaded, or juvenile. but C. macilenta can be differentiated coloration (C. macilenta is typically white or grey, while C. polydactyla is typically blue-grey) or by the reproductive structures ( soredia) which are granular in C. polydactyla and more mealy ( farinose) in C. macilenta. [4]