Cladonia cornuta

Cladonia cornuta
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
Scientific classification
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 ^[2] 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 . ^[3] German biologist Georg Franz Hoffmann transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1791. ^[4] The lichen has a distribution that is circumpolar, boreal, and arctic. It has also been recorded from the Southern Hemisphere. ^[5]

In North America, Cladonia cornuta is colloquially known as the bighorn Cladonia. ^[6]

See also

• List of Cladonia species

References

1. NatureServe. "Cladonia cornuta". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
2. "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.
3. Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1151.
4. Hoffmann, Georg Franz (1791). Descriptio et adumbratio plantarum e classe cryptogamica (in Latin). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium. p. tab. 25.
5. 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.
6. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 249. ISBN   978-0-300-08249-4.