You are here
Cladonia peziziformis
EOL Text
Primary thallus: squamulose, evanescent or occasionally persistent; squamules: very small (0.5-2 x 0.5-1 mm), undivided to somewhat laciniate, forming flat crusts; podetia: often abundant, 5-15 (22) mm tall, 0.5-1.5 mm thick, pale gray, usually unbranched or with some apical branchlets, in part flattened; surface: longitudinally grooved and cracked, almost continuously areolate-corticate and verruculose, esorediate, often slightly squamulose at the base; Apothecia: constantly present, 1-3 mm wide, dark brown to pale ochraceous; ascospores: oblong, 7-13 x 2-2.5 micro meter; Pycnidia: common, on primary squamules, ampullaceous to ovoid, constricted at base, with hyaline gelatin; conidia: 7-8 x 1 micro meter; Spot tests: K- or K+ dingy brown, C-, KC-, P+ red, UV-; Secondary metabolite: fumarprotocetraric acid.; Habitat and ecology: on bare soil banks; collected at 1700 m; World distribution: Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America; Sonoran distribution: only known from the Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) region of western Chihuahua.; Notes: This species can be recognized by its constantly fertile, small and slender, continuously corticate podetia and its tiny primary squamules. It is common in the eastern United States, but largely absent from the West. The Chihuahua record is an extension of its range to the Mexican mountains in the south.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Lichen Unlimited: Arizona State University, Tempe. 2002-2011 |
Source | http://symbiota.org/nalichens/taxa/index.php?taxon=53447 |
Canada
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: "Cladonia peziziformis grows on soil in old fields, road banks, and occasionally on logs and tree bases in open areas and mature forests over most of the eastern United States" (Flenniken 1999).