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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 9. Cladia. Cladoniaceae Zenker (1827); Cladoniineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Filson R., Vict. Nat. 87: 324-327 (1970); Filson R., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 49: 1-75 (1981); Galloway D.J., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand, Bot. 3: 161-167 (1966); Galloway D.J., Nova Hedwigia 28: 475-486 (1977); Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [94-98], Wellington (1985); Martin W., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand, Bot. 3: 7-12 (1965); Kantvilas G. & Elix J.A., Mycotaxon 29: 199-205 (1987); Stenroos S., Ann. Bot. Fenn. 25: 207-217 (1988).

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Asterochloris (A. Beck 22-05-97); Trebouxiaceae; Trebouxiales, Trebouxiophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct, crustose, or fruticose, not subdivided parts, granular. Upper Surface: Black, brown, grey, brownish yellow, olive, white, or yellow; special structures present:; pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface or attached by holdfasts; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming directly at the tip of the thallus parts, soon sessile or stipitate. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, oblong, or fusiform, 8-27 µm long, 3-5 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; immersed or stipitate, formed along the thallus periphery.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, ß-orcinol depsides, ß-orcinol depsidones, (higher) aliphatic acids, (tri-)terpenoids, and dibenzofurans [and usnic acids].

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