Lichens List |
Cladonia Family [Cladoniaceae] |
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20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
As scarlet red as phosphorus-based striking matches. Growing with Cladonia Portentosa(middle right). |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The redness is at the uppermost extremities of the lichen. |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Sometimes forming an un-even ring, sometimes an over-lapping encrustation. |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The lichen is match-stick like, and probably shorter than a match-stick, but is more of a grey-green colour than the grey of the Cladonia portentosaon the right. |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
But beneath the covering of grey-green tiny flakes the lichen is brownish. |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Sometimes branched, often not. |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The red encrustations are smooth. |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The algal-containing coarse granules are squamules. [The similarly red-tipped (but a deeper shade of red, not a scarlet red as here) Cladonia macilentahas areas of powdery soredia instead and is green when wet, whereas Cladonia floerkeana is grey even when wet]. |
20th April 2012, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Nearby surfaces are usually also covered in the squamules, being the means by which it proliferates. |
Easily mis-identified as :
Other Look-e-likees:
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Cladonia | floerkeana | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Cladoniaceae |
Cladonia Family [Cladoniaceae] |