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Cladonia incrassata Flörke  
Family: Cladoniaceae
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[Cenomyce brebissonii Delise, moreCladonia brebissonii (Delise) Nyl., Cladonia brebissonii f. brebissonii (Delise) Parrique, Cladonia brebissonii f. incrassata (Flörke) M. Choisy, Cladonia brebissonii f. minor (Rabenh.) M. Choisy, Cladonia brebissonii subsp. brebissonii (Delise) Parrique, Cladonia brebissonii subsp. macilentoides M. Choisy, Cladonia brebissonii subsp. monguillonii (Harm.) M. Choisy, Cladonia brebissonii var. brebissonii (Delise) Parrique, Cladonia brebissonii var. tenella (Delise) M. Choisy, Cladonia coccifera var. incrassata (Flörke) Laurer, Cladonia cristatella var. paludicola Tuck., Cladonia heteroclada Asahina, Cladonia incrassata f. incrassata Flörke, Cladonia incrassata f. squamulosa (Robbins) A. Evans, Cladonia incrassata subsp. heteroclada (Asahina) Asahina, Cladonia incrassata subsp. incrassata Flörke, Cladonia leptopoda Nyl., Cladonia paludicola (Tuck.) G. Merr., Cladonia paludicola f. paludicola (Tuck.) G. Merr., Cladonia paludicola f. squamulosa Robbins]
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North Carolina Biodiversity Project
MB# 382871

TYPE. GERMANY. Flörke s.n. Clad. exs. 5 [G, lectotype designated by Ahti (1993)].

Description. Lichenized fungus.

Thallus squamulose to dimorphic. Primary thallus squamulose, persistent; squamules very small, 0.5 x 3 mm, yellowish green above, abundantly white sorediate on margins and below. Podetia usually absent; when present 1-7 mm tall, 0.5-1 mm thick, yellowish, unbranched or sparsely branched, clublike, not forming cups; base orange-yellow. Podetial surface corticate, continuous, smooth to verruculose or sorediate in patches, rarely squamulose. Photobiont trebouxioid alga. Ascomata biatorine apothecia, frequent, red, up to 2.5 mm diam., on podetial tips; ascospores narrowly ovoid, 8-11 x 3.5-4 μm. Pycnidia on primary squamules, ovoid, 0.2-0.25 mm diam.; pycnidial jelly red; conidia curved, 6-8 x 1 μm.

Chemistry. Cortex K-, KC+ gold, C-, PD-; medulla UV+ white, K-, KC-, C-, PD-; usnic, didymic and squamatic acids.

Substrate and Habitat. Lignicolous on decaying wood.

Distribution. Western Europe, east Asia, eastern North America; in North Carolina found throughout. 

Literature

Ahti, T. (1993) Names in current use in the Cladoniaceae (lichen-forming Ascomycetes) in the ranks of genus to variety. Pp. 58-106 in Greuter, W (ed.): NCU-2. Names in Current Use in the Families Trichocomaceae, Cladoniaceae, Pinaceae, and Lemnaceae. Regnum Vegetabile, Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, Germany.

Ahti, T. (2000) Cladoniaceae. Flora Neotropica 78: 1-362.

Brodo, I.M., S. Duran Sharnoff & S. Sharnoff. (2001) Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven & London. 795 pp.

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