Cladonia scabriuscula (Delise) Nyl.

Comp. Rend. Herbd. Séan. Acad. Sci., 83: 88, 1876. Basionym: Cenomyce scabriuscula Delise in Duby - Bot. Gall.: 623, 1830.
Synonyms: Cladonia furcata var. recurva A.L. Sm.; Cladonia furcata var. scabriuscula (Delise) Coëm.; Cladonia surrecta (Flörke) Sandst.
Description: Primary thallus squamulose, usually evident only in young specimens, the squamules middle-sized, 1-3(-4) mm long and broad, crenate, adnate and often forming rosettes with raised margins, glaucescent above, white beneath. Podetia slender, dichotomously branched, hollow inside, with mostly open axils, 2-5(-10) cm tall, 2-5 mm thick, forming irregular tufts, with pointed apices, pale greenish grey, smoothly corticate but towards tips scabroous due to granules, microsquamules and disintegrating cortex, sometimes slightly and sparsely sorediate at tips. Apothecia very rare, dark brown, convex, small, crowded on the terminal branchlets. 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, semi-immersed, on the tips of podetia, with a colourless jelly. Conidia hyaline, curved. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K- or K+ yellowish slowly turning brown, C-, KC-, P+ red, UV-. Chemistry: fumarprotocetraric acid complex, rarely with traces of atranorin.
Growth form: Fruticose

Substrata: soil, terricolous mosses, and plant debris
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by isidia, or isidia-like structures (e.g. schizidia)
Most common in areas with a humid-warm climate (e.g. most of Tyrrenian Italy)

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Montane belt: extremely rare
Dry submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: very rare
Padanian area: absent

pH of the substrata:

12345
info

Solar irradiation:

12345
info

Aridity:

12345
info

Eutrophication:

12345
info

Poleotolerance:

0123
info

Altitudinal distribution:

123456
info

Rarity

absent
extremely rare
very rare
rare
rather rare
rather common
common
very common
extremely common
Loading data...
Occurrence data
Predictive map

Saxifraga-Willem van Kruijsbergen – Source: http://www.freenatureimages.eu/plants/Lichenes,%20Korstmossen,%20Lichens/Cladonia%20borealis,%20Boreal%20cup%20lichen/


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (12946)
2001/12/04
detail of cortex


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (12946)
2001/12/04
tip of branch with soredia


Triin Aimla; Owner: University of Tartu


Curtis Randall Björk, - CC BY-SA 4.0
Ballenas Island, British Columbia, Canada


Curtis Randall Björk, - CC BY-SA 4.0
Interior British Columbia, Canada, first western range of the Rocky Mountains over the Robson Valley, British Columbia, Canada
06.2018


Curtis Randall Björk, - CC BY-SA 4.0
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
2017


Mark Rahill CC BY-SA 4.0
USA, Vermont


Saxifraga-Willem van Kruijsbergen – Source: http://www.freenatureimages.eu/plants/Lichenes,%20Korstmossen,%20Lichens/Cladonia%20borealis,%20Boreal%20cup%20lichen/


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=489&lang=en
France, Ardennes


Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=489&lang=en
France, Ardennes


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=489&lang=en
France, Botmeur


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=489&lang=en
France, Saint-Cadou


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=489&lang=en
France, Saint-Cadou


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=489&lang=en
France, Saint-Cadou