Cladonia cornuta

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Cladonia cornuta
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Cladoniaceae
Genus: Cladonia
Species:
C. cornuta
Binomial name
Cladonia cornuta
(L.) Hoffm. (1791)
Synonyms
  • Lichen cornutusL. (1753)

Cladonia cornuta or the bighorn cup lichen [1] is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was first described as a new species by Swedish lichenologist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum . [2] German biologist Georg Franz Hoffmann transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1791. [3] The lichen has a distribution that is circumpolar, boreal, and arctic. It has also been recorded from the Southern Hemisphere. [4]

In North America, Cladonia cornuta is colloquially known as the bighorn Cladonia. [5]

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References

  1. "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.
  2. Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1151.
  3. Hoffmann, Georg Franz (1791). Descriptio et adumbratio plantarum e classe cryptogamica (in Latin). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium. p. tab. 25.
  4. Thomson, J.W. (1984). "Cladonia". American Arctic Lichens 1. The Macrolichens. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 98–175. ISBN   978-0-231-05888-9.
  5. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 249. ISBN   978-0-300-08249-4.