Species: Cladonia verruculosa
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Ascomycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Cladoniaceae
Genus
Cladonia
NatureServe
Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Fungi/Lichens - Lichens
Formal Taxonomy
Fungi - Ascomycota - Ascomycetes - Lecanorales - Cladoniaceae - Cladonia - The Bryologist. 81(2):334. Ahti suggests that it may be endemic to western N.A.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Lichen; podetia simple to moderately branched, pointed or tipped with cups, 2-10 cm tall, gray green, or with whitish or brownish parts; branch axils and cups closed; cups shallow, often irregular; branches proliferating from the margins and the interiors of the cups; podetia becoming decorticate with age, generally minutely warty, squamulose, or coarsely sorediate, sometimes richly squamulose; apothecia frequent, dark to pale brown (McCune and Geiser 1997).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4
Global Status Last Reviewed
2011-02-14
Global Status Last Changed
2011-02-14
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Found from British Columbia to California and from Montana (McCune and Geiser 1997).