Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Spreng.

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Brodo I. & Ahti T. (96-12-10). Data set to be published after submission; 96-12-10.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Cladonia. Cladoniaceae Zenker (1827).

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: some material may not be conspecific with eastern populations. Brodo I.M. & Ahti T., Can. J. Bot. 74: 1147-1180 (1996).

Ecology: Terricolous or lignicolous (especially on stumps, logs and rotting wood); growing sun-exposed or partially shaded; substrate non-calciferous.

Thallus: Crustose, squamulose; lobes ascending or horizontal; branches densely aggregated, scattered, loosely aggregated, or clustered; separate thallus parts 2-5 mm long; 2-6 mm wide. Primary Thallus: Persistent. Secondary Thallus: Present, arising from center of the primary thallus or arising from edge of the primary thallus, of determinate growth; stipe 7-35 mm high, lime green, olive, or brown (pale yellowish white to yellow green, becoming brown), homogeneously coloured, corticate (usually at least on lower 1/3 to 1/2), with intact wall. Thallus Outline: Margin crenulate or dissected. Upper Surface: Verruculose or areolated (on lower half), lime green, olive, or brown; not sorediate. Lower Surface: White or brown (to black at base).

Lower Cortex: Absent.

Ascocarps: Forming along the margin of scyphi (on short proliferations), moderately abundant, 1-8 mm in diam.. Disk: Weakly convex to strongly convex; brown.

Conidiomata: Formed on margins of scyphi.

Secondary Metabolites: Fumarprotocetraric acid (with protocetraric acid and often Cph-2) and protocetraric acid, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsidones.

Spot Tests: Upper surface: K – (negative) (or brownish), C –, PD + red.

(report generated 15.Nov.2007)