Cladonia subradiata

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Cladonia subradiata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Cladoniaceae
Genus: Cladonia
Species:
C. subradiata
Binomial name
Cladonia subradiata
Synonyms[1]
  • Cladonia balfourii
    Cromb.
    (1876)
  • Cladonia fimbriata var. subradiata Vain. (1894)
  • Cladonia fimbriata var. balfourii (Cromb.) Vain. (1894)

Cladonia subradiata is a widely distributed species of fruticose lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It is found in Asia, Africa, Melanesia, Australia, New Zealand, and South, Central, and North America.

Taxonomy

The lichen was originally described as a variety of Cladonia fimbriata by Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1894. The type specimen, collected in 1885, was found in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the Caraça Mountains, at an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft).[2] German botanist Heinrich Sandstede promoted it to distinct species status in 1922.[3]

Description

Cladonia subradiata has a scaly primary

lichen spot tests, Cladonia subradiata is PD+ red and K−. It contains the lichen substances protocetraric acid, fumarprotocetraric acid, ursolic acid, and the chemically uncharacterized compounds called Cph-1 and Cph-2.[5]

Cladonia subradiata has been confused with

synonymous.[1]

Habitat and distribution

This species is widely distributed in Central and South America, extending to North Carolina in North America. In South America the lichen has been collected from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay,

montane rainforests, preferring substrates such as humus and boulders.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^
    Species Fungorum
    . Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. ^ Vainio, E.A. (1894). Monographia Cladoniarum universalis. Pars II. Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). Vol. 10. p. 338.
  3. ^ Sandstede, H. (1922). "Flechten des nordwestdeutschen Tieflandes und der deutschen Nordseeinseln". Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen (in German). 25 (2): 224–248.
  4. ^
    doi:10.30972/bon.611505
    .
  5. ^
    JSTOR 23725717
    .
  6. ISBN 978-4-905869-19-1
    .
  7. JSTOR 2559543
    .
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