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Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.

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Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd., Fl. Berol. Prodr. 361 (1787)
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
NZ Botanical Region
Cosmopolitan

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Willd.
L.
(L.) Willd.
1787
361
ICN
species
Cladonia coccifera

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coccifera

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Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.

Primary squamules persistent or disappearing, to 12 × 5 mm, irregularly crenate-incised or lobed, upper surface yellowish to glaucescent-olive, lower surface white to rarely yellowish, base orange to blackish-brown, esorediate. Podetia to 55 mm tall, normally shorter, cups broad, shallow, goblet-shaped, flaring gradually, simple or with marginal proliferations bearing apothecia or more rarely a second tier of cups. Cortex yellowish to glaucescent, subcontinuous at base becoming verrucose-areolate above, verruculae continuous or dispersed, esorediate, ± squamulose, decorticate parts opaque, white to yellow-white. Apothecia large, red. Chemistry: Cortex K-, KC+ yellow-orange, Pd-. Two chemodemes present, (i) Barbatic, ± 4-O-demethyl barbatic and usnic acids; (ii) Zeorin, ± porphyrillic, ± conporphyrillic and usnic acids.

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Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
Lichen cocciferus L.
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.

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Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 December 2021
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