Cladonia portentosa (images of British lichens)

Podetia cream to pale greyish green, richly branched, the finer branches spreading in all directions, typically with holes in the axils of the main branches, branching predominantly trichotomous. Generally the commonest of the 'reindeer lichens' (subgen. Cladina), on heaths and moors, surfaces of peat bogs and on acid dunes, often locally dominant.

Refs: Smith et al. (2009), 319; Purvis et al. (1992), 196; Ahti (1961), 74, plate 26 (photo, as C. impexa); Dobson (2005), 142 & cover (photo); Dobson (2011), 149 (photo); Britton (2008) 25 (photos); Allen (2007), 20 (photo); Jahns (1983), 212-213 (photo); van Herk & Aptroot (2004), 126-127 (photo, as Cladina portentosa); Krog et al. (1994), 166 (photo); Wirth (1995), 1: 296, 297 (photo); Wirth et al. (2004), 73 (photo); Thomson (1967) 144, plate 24 (photo, as C. impexa); McCune & Geiser (2009), 94 (photo); Lichen Atlas of the British Isles 2: 409 (1996).

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