Cladonia digitata (L.) Hoffm.
Deutschl. Fl., 2: 124, 1796. Basionym: Lichen digitatus L. - Sp. Pl.: 1152, 1753, nom. cons.
Synonyms:
Distribution: N - Frl (Tretiach & Molaro 2007, Tomasi 2007), Ven (Nascimbene & Caniglia 1997, 2000b, 2002c, 2003c, Caniglia & al. 1999, Nascimbene 2005c, 2008c, 2011, Nascimbene & al. 2006e, 2009c, Giovagnoli & Tasinazzo 2014), TAA (Nascimbene & Caniglia 2000b, 2002c, Caniglia & al. 2002, Nascimbene 2003, 2005b, 2006b, 2006c, 2008b, 2013, 2014, 2014c, Nascimbene & al. 2005, 2006, 2006e, 2007b, 2008c, 2009, 2010, 2022, Nascimbene & Marini 2007, 2015, Lang 2009, Brackel 2013, Nimis & al. 2015, Trindade & al. 2021), Lomb (Rivellini 1994, Rivellini & Valcuvia 1996, Alessio & al. 1995, Dalle Vedove & al. 2004, Nascimbene & al. 2006e, Brackel 2010, Gheza 2018, 2019, 2019b, Lich. Ital. Exs. 15: Isocrono & al. 2018, Gheza & al. 2015, 2022), Piem (Isocrono & al. 2004, 2006), VA (Piervittori & Isocrono 1999, Matteucci & al. 2008), Emil (Nimis & al. 1996, Benesperi & al. 2007, Fariselli & al. 2020), Lig (Brunialti & al. 1999, Watson 2014, Gheza & al. 2020). C - Tosc (Tretiach & Nimis 1994, Senese & Critelli 2000, Loppi & al. 2004c, Benesperi & al. 2007, Benesperi 2011, Brackel 2015), Marc, Laz (Ravera 2002b), Abr (Nimis & Tretiach 1999), Sar (Burgaz & al. 2020). S - Bas, Cal (Puntillo 1996), Si.
Description: Primary thallus squamulose, the squamules prominent, large, up to 1 x 1.5(-3) cm, rounded, entire, lobed or weakly incised, horizontally spreading, with farinose soredia along the up-turned margin, grey-green to olive-green above, white and farinose beneath, often pale orange near the attachment point. Podetia often prostrate or decumbent, hollow inside, grey-green to olive-green, 8-25 mm tall, 0.7-4 mm thick, pointed or with irregular small cups gradually broadening toward the base, with smoothly corticated patches at the base and inside the cups, interrupted by large, finely sorediate patches, the soredia 30-50 μm in diam. Apothecia rare, scarlet red, developing on 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 scarlet red, slightly stalked or semi-immersed at the top of podetia or along the margins of cups. Conidia hyaline, curved. Photobiont chlorococcoid. Spot tests: K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ yellow, UV-. Chemistry: thamnolic acid; rhodocladonic acid in apothecia and pycnidia.Note: a cool-temperate to boreal-montane, circumpolar species found on strongly weathered lignum, mosses, on the bases of trunks, sometimes on soil rich in humus; common only in the Alps, becoming much rarer southwards.
Growth form: Fruticose
Substrata: bark and lignum
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: very common
Oromediterranean belt: very rare
Montane belt: rather common
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

Predictive model
Herbarium samples


P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36842)
2008.02.28


E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (21697)
2008.04.02

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, Bosco della Stua, Lago di Sauris, 1000m
09.09.2016


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, Bosco della Stua, Lago di Sauris, 1000m
09.09.2016


Curtis Randall Björk, - CC BY-SA 4.0
Sugarbowl-Grizzly Den Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
August 2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Sondrio, Pian Gembro, 1400 m
08/2018

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
25/10/2020

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
25/10/2020

Rosanna Coen
Italia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano-Bozen, Val Badia, sentiero nel bosco tra La Villa e Corvara

Rosanna Coen
Italia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano-Bozen, Val Badia, sentiero nel bosco tra La Villa e Corvara

Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C/Cladonia_digitata.htm
France, Chamonix - Haute-Savoie
23/8/2015

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
Belgium, Hermeton sur Meuse

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
Belgium, Hermeton sur Meuse

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
Belgium, Hermeton sur Meuse

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Locronan

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse.

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.
Growth form: Fruticose
Substrata: bark and lignum
Photobiont: green algae other than Trentepohlia
Reproductive strategy: mainly asexual, by soredia, or soredia-like structures (e.g. blastidia)
Commonnes-rarity: (info)
Alpine belt: very rare
Subalpine belt: very common
Oromediterranean belt: very rare
Montane belt: rather common
Submediterranean belt: absent
Padanian area: extremely rare
Humid submediterranean belt: absent
Humid mediterranean belt: absent
Dry mediterranean belt: absent

Predictive model
Herbarium samples |


P.L.Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (36842)
2008.02.28


E. Pittao; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Herbarium: TSB (21697)
2008.04.02

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010

Paolo Fontanesi; Owner: Paolo Fontanesi
Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, al Nambrone, nel Parco Regionale Trentino dell'Adamello-Brenta.
Herbarium: Forum Natura Mediterraneo
2010


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, Bosco della Stua, Lago di Sauris, 1000m
09.09.2016


P.L. Nimis; Owner: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, Bosco della Stua, Lago di Sauris, 1000m
09.09.2016


Curtis Randall Björk, - CC BY-SA 4.0
Sugarbowl-Grizzly Den Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
August 2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
27/10/2017

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Sondrio, Pian Gembro, 1400 m
08/2018

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
25/10/2020

Gabriele Gheza - https://lichenidilombardia.home.blog
Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo, Azzone, 1750 m
25/10/2020

Rosanna Coen
Italia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano-Bozen, Val Badia, sentiero nel bosco tra La Villa e Corvara

Rosanna Coen
Italia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano-Bozen, Val Badia, sentiero nel bosco tra La Villa e Corvara

Courtesy: Olivier et Danièle Gonnet - Source: https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_C/Textes_C/Cladonia_digitata.htm
France, Chamonix - Haute-Savoie
23/8/2015

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
Belgium, Hermeton sur Meuse

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
Belgium, Hermeton sur Meuse

Jacques Haine - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
Belgium, Hermeton sur Meuse

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Huelgoat

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Landevennec

Bernard Bouffinier - Source: http://www.lichensmaritimes.org/index.php?task=fiche&lichen=486&lang=en
France, Locronan

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse.

Ulrich Kirschbaum CC BY-SA 4.0 - Source: https://www.thm.de/lse/ulrich-kirschbaum/flechtenbilder
Central Europe; Germany: Hesse.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.

Marta González Garcia - Centro de Estudios Micologicos Asturianos
Spain, Faedo (Quirós-Asturias), 25-III-2024, en madera musgosa en descomposición, leg. & det. M. González, conf. A. R. Burgaz, MGG-84.
