Consortium of Lichen Herbaria
- building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens as keystones of cryptobiotic communities -
Login New Account
  • Home
  • Search
    • Specimen Search
    • Map Search
    • Exsiccatae
    • Dynamic Species List
    • Dynamic Identification Key
    • Taxonomic Explorer
  • Images
    • Image Browser
    • Image Search
  • Species Checklists
    • Global Checklists >
      • Global Checklists of Lichens & Lichenicolous Fungi
      • Global IUCN Red-Lists
    • Arctic
    • North America
    • Canada
    • Mexico
    • US States: A-L >
      • Alaska
      • Arizona
      • Arkansas
      • California
      • Colorado
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Hawai'i
      • Idaho
      • Illinois
      • Indiana
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Kentucky
    • US States: M-N >
      • Maine
      • Maryland
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • Missouri
      • Minnesota
      • Mississippi
      • Montana
      • Nebraska
      • Nevada
      • New Jersey
      • New Mexico
      • New York
      • North Carolina
      • North Dakota
    • US States: O-Z >
      • Ohio
      • Oklahoma
      • Oregon
      • Pennsylvania
      • South Carolina
      • South Dakota
      • Tennessee
      • Texas
      • Utah
      • Virginia
      • Washington, D.C.
      • Washington
      • West Virginia
      • Wisconsin
      • Wyoming
    • US National Parks
    • Central America
      • Panama
    • South America
      • Ecuador
    • US National Parks
    • Southern Subpolar Region
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Associated Projects
    • Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
    • GLOBAL Bryophytes and Lichens Network
    • MyCoPortal
  • More Information
    • Partners
    • Data Usage Policy
  • Sitemap
  • Help & Resources
    • Consortium Resources
    • Symbiota Help
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata (Ach.) Ahti  
Family: Cladoniaceae
Bronze Pixie-cup
[Cenomyce allotropa var. lomagona Ach., moreCenomyce allotropa var. turbinata (Ach.) Ach., Cladonia gracilis var. turbinata (Ach.) Schaer., Cladonia pachyscypha Sandst., Lichen turbinatus Ach.]
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Troy McMullin
  • North Carolina Biodiversity Project
  • Resources
North Carolina Biodiversity Project
MB# 116500

TYPE. “Sweden? (BM-ACH 702h, as Cenomyce allotropa var. turbinata, lectotype; BM-ACH 702b, d-e and BM ex Hb. Turner received J.E. Smith in 1809, syntypes” (Ahti 1980).

Description. Lichenized fungus.

Thallus dimorphic. Primary thallus squamulose, regularly persistent; squamules 3-4 x 2-4 mm with few lobes. Podetia slender, 2-7 cm tall, 1-5 mm thick, greenish gray to partly brown, usually somewhat branched, forming cups; cups well-developed, 4-8 mm diam., 2-3 per podetium, margins toothed; base blackened. Podetial surface corticate, continuous to rimose to areolate, usually squamulate. Photobiont Asterochloris alga. Ascomata biatorine apothecia, frequent, dark brown, up to 7 mm diam., on cup margins; ascospores narrowly ovoid, 10-17.5 x 3-5 μm. Pycnidia frequent, 0.2 mm diam.; conidia 6-7 x 0.5-1 μm.

Chemistry. UV+ violet, K+ red-brown, PD+ red; fumarprotocetraric and protocetraric acids.

Substrate and Habitat. On decaying wood or humus over soil in open woodlands or rock outcrops.

Distribution. North America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, Marion Island; in North Carolina in the Blue Ridge ecoregion. 

Literature

Acharius, E. (1798) Lichenographiae suecicae prodromus. Linköping. i-xxiv, 1-264 pp (original description as Lichen turbinatus).

Ahti, T. (1980) Taxonomic revision of Cladonia gracilis and its allies. Annales Botanici Fennici 17: 195-243.

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

Øvstedal, D.O. & N.J.M Gremmen. (2014) Additional lichen records from Subantarctica III. Marion Island. Australasian Lichenology 74: 2-7.

Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata
Open Interactive Map
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Jason Hollinger
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Christopher Raithel
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Christopher Raithel
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Cladonia gracilis subsp. turbinata image
Click to Display
40 Total Images

 

This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards: #1115116, #2001500, #2001394
Powered by Symbiota