Cladonia sobolescens
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Cladoniaceae |
| Genus: | Cladonia |
| Species: | C. sobolescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Cladonia sobolescens Vain. (1887) | |
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Cladonia sobolescens, commonly known as the peg lichen, is a species of
temperate eastern North America and East Asia
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Taxonomy
Cladonia sobolescens is classified in the
Description
The primary squamules of Cladonia sobolescens are rounded to strap-shaped, and range in color from greyish to green to brown, depending on the degree of sun exposure it has had. When growing vertically, a white lower surface may become exposed. The
apothecia that only slightly or not at all broader than the tips of the podetia.[4]
The lichen contains fumarprotocetraric acid as its main secondary metabolite, and a smaller amount of protocetraric acid.[1] It is a fumarprotocetraric acid chemotype of Cladonia subcariosa.[3]
Habitat and distribution
Cladonia sobolescens is found in
temperate eastern North America and East Asia.[1] The northern limit of its North American range extends to Prince Edward Island in Canada.[5]
See also
References
- ^ JSTOR 23725164.
- ^ Wainio, Edvard August (1887). Monographia Cladoniarum universalis: I. Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. Vol. 4. p. 80.
- ^ JSTOR 23725540.
- ^ ISBN 978-0300082494.
- S2CID 140538106.