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Cladonia cornuta

Fungi

Family: Cladoniaceae · Genus: Cladonia

Cladonia cornuta

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Cladonia cornuta or the bighorn cup lichen is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was first described as a new species by Swedish lichenologist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum. German biologist Georg Franz Hoffmann transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1791. The lichen has a distribution that is circumpolar, boreal, and arctic. It has also been recorded from the Southern Hemisphere.

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Growing details and traits for Cladonia cornuta in the Library.

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