Cladonia ciliata Stirt.

Scottish Natur, 9: 308, 1888.
Synonyms: Cladina ciliata (Stirt.) Trass; Cladina ciliata f. tenuis (Flörke) Ahti; Cladina ciliata var. tenuis (Flörke) Ahti & M.J. Lai; Cladina leucophaea (Abbayes) Mong.; Cladina tenuis (Flörke) B. de Lesd.; Cladonia ciliata f. flavicans (Flörke) Ahti & DePriest; Cladonia ciliata var. tenuis (Flörke) Ahti; Cladonia laxiuscula Delise non auct.; Cladonia leucophaea Abbayes; Cladonia rangiferina var. tenuis Flörke; Cladonia tenuiformis Ahti; Cladonia tenuis (Flörke) Harm.; Cladonia tenuis var. leucophaea (Abbayes) Ahti
Distribution: N - Ven (Lazzarin 2000b), Piem (Burgaz & al. 2020), Lig (Ravera & al. 2015). C - Tosc (Ravera & al. 2015, Gheza & al. 2020, Ravera & al. 2021c), Laz (Ravera & al. 2015). S - Cal (Puntillo 1996, Ravera & al. 2015), Si (Nimis & al. 1994, Ottonello & Romano 1997, Ottonello & al. 2011, Ravera & al. 2015).
Description: Primary thallus crustose, ephemeral and rarely seen. Podetia pal straw-yellow or ash-grey, shrubby, richly anisotomically (i.e. main branches thicker)-dichotomously branched, with closed axils, ecorticate (with a minutely arachnoid surface), 4-7(-10) cm tall, 0.5-1(-1.2) mm thick, the main branches thicker, the pointed apices unilaterally deflexed. Apothecia rather rare, brown, convex. 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 red jelly. Conidia hyaline, curved. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K-, C-, KC- or KC+ yellow, P+ red, UV-. Chemistry: chemotype 1): fumarprotocetraric and occasionally traces of usnic acid (thallus grey); chemotype 2) fumarprotocetraric and usnic acid (thallus yellowish); Italian records refer to the latter. Note: a rare temperate species found on mosses in shrublands, especially in undisturbed maquis vegetation, restricted to humid areas. The species occurs in two chemotypes which rarely grow together, the colour varying from dark brown to straw-yellow in f. flavicans (Flörke) Ahti & DePriest.
Note: a rare temperate species found on mosses in shrublands, especially in undisturbed maquis vegetation, restricted to humid areas. The species occurs in two chemotypes which rarely grow together, the colour varying from dark brown to straw-yellow in f. flavicans (Flörke) Ahti & DePriest. It was assessed as “Endangered” in Italy by Ravera & al. (2015).
Growth form: Fruticose

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

Commonnes-rarity: (info)

Alpine belt: absent
Subalpine belt: absent
Oromediterranean belt: absent
Montane belt: extremely rare
Submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Padanian area: absent
Humid submediterranean belt: extremely rare
Humid mediterranean belt: extremely rare
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

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Predictive model
Herbarium samples

Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Cladonia_ciliata_ciliata.htm
France, session AFL en Normandie - La Hunière - Orne
4/3/2013



P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (15264)
2001/12/04
tip of branches of f. tenuis


Triin Aimla; Owner: University of Tartu
originally as Cladina tenuis


Harrie Sipman – Source http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/sipman/Zschackia/AegeanLichens/CaloplacaAC.htm - As Caloplaca oasis


Felix Schumm- CC BY-SA 4.0
[4071], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Ludwigsburg, im Krummbachtal zwischen Büsnau und Gerlingen, linke Talseite im Küchrain, auf sonniger, sandig-erdiger Wegböschung, ca. 450 m, TK 7220/NW. Leg. U. Schwarz, 11.06.1993, det. F. Schumm, 1993



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


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Cladonia_ciliata_ciliata.htm
France, session AFL en Normandie - La Hunière - Orne
4/3/2013


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Cladonia_ciliata_ciliata.htm
France, session AFL en Normandie - La Hunière - Orne
4/3/2013


Felix Schumm- CC BY-SA 4.0
[4071], Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Kreis Ludwigsburg, im Krummbachtal zwischen Büsnau und Gerlingen, linke Talseite im Küchrain, auf sonniger, sandig-erdiger Wegböschung, ca. 450 m, TK 7220/NW. Leg. U. Schwarz, 11.06.1993, det. F. Schumm, 1993


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Cladonia_ciliata_ciliata.htm
France, session AFL en Normandie - La Hunière - Orne
4/3/2013


Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C3/Cladonia_ciliata_ciliata.htm
France, session AFL en Normandie - La Hunière - Orne
4/3/2013


Arnaud Dslhoume - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=290&lang=en
France, Chor


Arnaud Dslhoume - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=290&lang=en
France, Chor


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=290&lang=en
France, Bodogat


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=290&lang=en
France, Bodogat


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=290&lang=en
France, Kador


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=290&lang=en
France, Pointe de Pen Hir
f. flavicans


Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=290&lang=en
France, Pointe de Pen Hir
f. flavicans