Cladonia cariosa

Cladonia cariosa
	In Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Washington
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Cladoniaceae
Genus:	Cladonia
Species:	C. cariosa
Binomial name
	Cladonia cariosa; (Lilj.) Spreng. (1827)
Synonyms
	List Lichen cariosus Lilj. (1798) ; Baeomyces cariosus (Lilj.) Ach. (1803) ; Cenomyce cariosa (Lilj.) Ach. (1810) ; Scyphophorus cariosus (Lilj.) Sm. (1844) ; Cladonia pyxidata var. cariosa (Lilj.) Rabenh. (1845) ; Cladonia degenerans var. cariosa (Lilj.) Tuck. (1845) ; Cladonia fimbriata var. cariosa (Lilj.) Körb. (1855) ; Cladonia gracilis e cariosa (Lilj.) Mudd (1861) ; Patellaria symphycarpa var. cribrosa Wallr. (1831) ; Cladonia cariosa var. cribrosa Vain. (1894) ; Cladonia cariosa f. cribrosa Fink (1935) ;

Cladonia cariosa, commonly known as the split-peg lichen or split-peg soldiers,^[2] is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was first formally named by the Swedish botanist Samuel Liljeblad in 1798 as Lichen cariosus and transferred to the genus Cladonia in 1827 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel.^[1] The lichen is widely distributed in northern North America.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Cladonia cariosa (Lilj.) Spreng., Syst. veg., Edn 16 4(1): 272 (1827)". Retrieved 18 January 2025.
^ ^a ^b Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 242–243. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.

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