Cladonia fimbriata (images of British lichens)

Podetia grey-green, with cups (scyphi) abruptly expanded from the long, cylindrical stems, with finely granular soredia on the outer surface and interior of the cup, minute brown pycnidia often on the cup margins; apothecia brown on margins of rather distorted cups, uncommon . On soil and rotting wood, widespread and common.

Refs: Smith et al. (2009), 327; Purvis et al. (1992), 201; Dobson (2005), 138 (photo); Dobson (2011), 145 (photo); Jahns (1983), 218-219 (photo); Whelan (2011), 73 (photo); van Haluwyn et al. (2009), 214-5 (photo); van Herk & Aptroot (2004), 140-141 (photo); Wirth (1995), 1: 302, 326 (photo); Wirth et al. (2004), 85 (photo); Krog et al. (1994), 156 (photo); Moberg & Holmåson (1984), 142 (photo); Holien & Tønsberg (2008), 93 (photo); Puntillo (1996), plate 13 (photo); Brodo et al. (2001), 254 (photo); Hinds & Hinds (2007), 182 (photo); Thomson (1967) 109, plate 13 (photo); Walewski (2007), 46 (photo); McCune & Geiser (2009), 87 (photo); Lichen Atlas of the British Isles 2: 384 (1996).

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Images of British Lichens