Cladonia phyllophora Hoffm.

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 or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: species. Cladonia. Cladoniaceae Zenker (1827).

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: not on QCI; description from Thomson 1984. Brodo I.M. & Ahti T., Can. J. Bot. 74: 1147-1180 (1996); Thomson, J.W., American Arctic Lichens 1. The macrolichens, New York (1984).

Ecology: Terricolous; growing sun-exposed or partially shaded.

Thallus: Crustose, squamulose; lobes ascending; branches densely aggregated, scattered, loosely aggregated, or clustered; separate thallus parts 2-15 mm long; 2-4 mm wide. Primary Thallus: Evanescent or persistent. Secondary Thallus: Present, of determinate growth; stipe 8-80 mm high, 1-4 mm wide, lime green or olive, homogeneously coloured or mottled, corticate, with intact or longitudinally split wall. Thallus Outline: Margin crenulate or dissected. Upper Surface: Areolated, lime green or olive, smooth; not sorediate. Lower Surface: White.

Lower Cortex: Absent.

Ascocarps: Forming apical at the tip of branches or stipes or along the margin of scyphi, moderately abundant, 1-2 mm in diam.. Disk: Weakly convex to strongly convex; brown.

Conidiomata: Formed on podetia or on margins of scyphi.

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

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

(report generated 15.Nov.2007)