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Cladonia is a genus of moss-like lichenized fungi in the family Cladoniaceae. They are the primary food source for reindeer /caribou. Cladonia species are of economic importance to reindeer-herders, such as the Sami in Scandinavia or the Nenets in Russia .
Cladonia subulata and Cladonia ochrochlora are similar species that can be distinguished by their secondary chemistry. Fumarprotocetraric acid is the only main lichen metabolite in C. subulata . Another lookalike, Cladonia glauca , contains squamatic acid , a substance that causes it to glow white when lit with a UV light .
Twenty-six Cladoniaceae species (25 Cladonia and 1 Cladia) are known to occur in the Galápagos Islands. There, some species form mats on lava flows that have developed little soil. [76] A 2013 monograph of Northern European Cladoniaceae treated 100 species (95 Cladonia, 4 Pilophorus, and the monotypic genus Pycnothelia). [77]
Cladonia macilenta, a lookalike species of C. floerkeana, featuring red apothecia and slender, sorediate podetia. Cladonia floerkeana closely resembles Cladonia macilenta (thin cup lichen), a species that often occurs in similar habitats and is part of the same Erythrocarpae clade. The two can be distinguished by their surface features and ...
Cladonia is a large genus of lichens in the family Cladoniaceae. ... Cladonia ochrochlora Flörke (1827) Cladonia oricola Ahti & S.Stenroos (2008) [89] P
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Cladonia grayi, commonly known as Gray's cup lichen or Gray's pixie cup, is a species of fruticose lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. [3] It is characterised by small, leaf-like squamules forming its primary thallus and distinctive upright podetia (5–15 mm tall) that develop into goblet-shaped cups.
Cladonia monomorpha is a species of terricolous (ground-dwelling), fruticose lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. [1] It is part of the Cladonia pyxidata group, known for brown apothecia on cup-shaped podetia .