Cladonia tenerrima (Ahti) S.Hammer
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Cladonia tenerrima (Ahti) S.Hammer, Bryologist 106: 429 (2003)
Cladonia tenerrima (Ahti) S.Hammer
Biostatus
Nomenclature
(Ahti) S.Hammer
Ahti
S.Hammer
2003
429
ICN
species
Cladonia tenerrima
Classification
Descriptions
Primary squamules very small to moderately large, to 3 mm long and 1 mm wide, persistent or disappearing, upper surface greyish, lower surface white. Podetia 10-80 mm tall, filiform, 0.3-0.5(-0.9) mm diam., greenish-grey to brown towards tips, dying base becoming brownish-grey to black, unbranched or rarely dichotomously branching, branching more abundant if tips damaged, apices subulate, rarely with cups, cups 0-2(-4) per podetium, 0.5-1(-2) mm wide, regular to irregular, occasionally laterally flattened, relatively deep, with dentate (often 7-8 teeth) margins. Cortex areolate, areolate usually slightly elevated, alternating with rather wide, white or brown medullary patches and lines, and with a greyish tomentum on younger and shaded parts. Central canal often extremely narrow, absent from thinnest podetia, when present, surface minutely fibrillose-striate, some old podetia long-hairy internally. Apothecia 1-3 mm wide, pale to dark brown. Chemistry: Cortex K-, KC-, Pd+ red. Fumarprotocetraric and protocetraric acid.
Taxonomic concepts
Cladonia gracilis subsp. tenerrima Ahti
Cladonia gracilis subsp. tenerrima Ahti
Cladonia tenerrima (Ahti) S.Hammer
Cladonia tenerrima (Ahti) S.Hammer
Cladonia tenerrima (Ahti) S.Hammer
Cladonia tenerrima (Ahti) S.Hammer
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Names_Plants
23 August 2006
28 July 2009