Cladonia coniocraea (images of British lichens)

Podetia grey-green, slender, tapering to a point or terminating in a very narrow cup no wider than the podetium, sorediate in upper part, corticate and usually squamulose near base; basal sqamules incised, white beneath, often sparsely sorediate on margins and underside; apothecia rare, brown, on the tips of the podetia. Widespread and often very common on mossy trunks and decaying stumps and logs.

Refs: Purvis et al. (1992), 325; Dobson (2005), 136 (photo); Dobson (2011), 144 (photo); Jahns (1983), 220-221 (photo); van Haluwyn et al. (2009), 214-5 (photo); van Herk & Aptroot (2004), 136-137 (photo); Wirth (1995), 1: 302, 303 (photo); Wirth et al. (2004), 80 (photo); Moberg & Holmåson (1984), 140 (photo); Puntillo (1996), plate 13 (photo); Brodo et al. (2001), 247 (photo); Hinds & Hinds (2007), 174 (photo); Thomson (1967) 112, plate 14 (photo); Walewski (2007), 42 (photo); Lichen Atlas of the British Isles 2: 375 (1996).

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Images of British Lichens