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Cladonia portentosa
Nomenclature
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Family: CladoniaceaeGenus: Cladonia
Species:
Cladonia portentosa
SUMMARY
Thallus: podetia 4-10 cm tall, grey-green often with a yellowish green tinge, the surface often roughened, areolate particularly towards the base, richly branched. Terminal branches mostly ± erect, not orientated in one direction, forming broccoli-like, rounded heads, the branching predominantly trichotomous at apices, often with perforated axils.
Anamorph: conidiomata pycnidia. Pycnidial jelly hyaline.
Teleomorph: not known.
Chemistry: thallus C–, K–, KC± yellow, Pd–, UV+ pale blue (perlatolic and usually usnic acid).