Cladonia wainioi
| Cladonia wainioi | |
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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. wainioi
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| Binomial name | |
| Cladonia wainioi Savicz (1914)
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Cladonia wainioi or the Wainio's cup lichen[1] is a species of cup lichen found in boreal and arctic regions of the Russian Far East and northern North America.
Taxonomy
Cladonia wainioi was
molecular phylogenetic analysis of genus Cladonia, Cladonia wainioi was positioned as basal to the rest of the Cladoniae. Stenroos and colleagues proposed placing it in subdivision I of Cladonia,[3] a deviation from the placement in Cladonia section Ascyphiferae proposed by Teuvo Ahti a couple of years before.[4] They suggested that C. wainioi is "rather distinct in its cladinioid branching and its production of merochlorophaeic acid
".
Description
Cladonia wainioi has greenish to brownish mineral-grey
lichen spot test of PD+ red, while C. wainioi is PD−.[5]
Habitat and distribution
Cladonia wainioi grows in
Newfoundland south to mountains in New England.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.
- ^ Savicz, Vsevolod Pavlovic (1914). "Neue Flechten aus Kamtschatka". Izvestiya Imperatorskogo Botanicheskogo Sada Petra Velikago (in German). 14: 111–128.
- S2CID 221576450.
- ^ Ahti, T. (2000). Cladoniaceae. Flora Neotropica Monogr. Vol. 78. pp. 1–362.
- ^ U.S. Forest Service.