Cladonia ecmocyna Leight.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 18: 406, 1866.
Synonyms: Cladonia elongata var. ecmocyna (Leight.) Räsänen; Cladonia gracilis var. ecmocyna (Leight.) Kernst.
Description: Primary thallus squamulose, ephemeral, the squamules middle-sized, 1-4(-5) mm long, greenish brown to greenish grey above, pure white beneath. Podetia elongate, hollow inside, dull glaucous green, greenish grey or greenish brown in sun-forms, sometimes browned or weakly pruinose at the tips, often yellowish at the emorient bases, 5-10 cm tall, 0.5-4(-5) mm thick, cupless or with narrow (1.5-5 mm wide) cups, esquamulose or sparsely squamulose in lower parts, the cortex subcontinuous to checkered-areolate, the areoles often separated by a network of white medullary interspaces. Apothecia rare, brown to almost black, convex, developing along the margins of cups. Asci 8-spored, clavate, thickened at apex, with a K/I+ blue tholus and a K/I+ strongly blue outer gelatinous sheath, Cladonia-type. Ascospores 1-celled, hyaline, ellipsoid. Pycnidia dark, pyriform, semi-immersed along the margins of the cups, with a colourless jelly. Conidia hyaline, curved. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K+ instantly yellow, C-, KC-, P+ red; yellow pigment at the base K+ red. Chemistry: atranorin, fumarprotocetraric acid, and terpenoids.
Growth form: Fruticose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: extremely rare
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
pH of the substrata:
1 2 3 4 5
Solar irradiation:
1 2 3 4 5
Aridity:
1 2 3 4 5
Eutrophication:
1 2 3 4 5
Poleotolerance:
0 1 2 3
Altitudinal distribution:
1 2 3 4 5 6
Rarity
absent
extremely rare
very rare
rare
rather rare
rather common
common
very common
extremely common
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P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (22)
2002/12/18
detail of podetia with squamules

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ1957], Groenlandia occidentalis. Disko:Lyngmark, ad latera australia
montis Lyngmarksfield, 100-150 m. In angello nivium diu persistentium.
Leg. J. Poelt et H. Ullrich, 256.7.1983, det. J. Poelt. EX A. VEZDA
LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCTI NR. 1957.

Felix Schumm - CC BY 4.0
[VZ1957], Groenlandia occidentalis. Disko:Lyngmark, ad latera australia
montis Lyngmarksfield, 100-150 m. In angello nivium diu persistentium.
Leg. J. Poelt et H. Ullrich, 256.7.1983, det. J. Poelt. EX A. VEZDA
LICHENES SELECTI EXSICCTI NR. 1957.
Growth form: Fruticose
Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly sexual
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: extremely rare
Subalpine belt: extremely rare
Montane belt: absent
Dry submediterranean belt: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: absent
pH of the substrata:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Solar irradiation:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Aridity:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Eutrophication:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Poleotolerance:
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Altitudinal distribution:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Rarity
absent
extremely rare
very rare
rare
rather rare
rather common
common
very common
extremely common
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