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Cladonia albonigra
Scientific Name: Cladonia albonigra
Family: Cladoniaceae
Category: Lichen
Growth: Lichenous
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Cladonia albonigra
Cladonia albonigra is a lichen species with several interesting facets. This page compiles available information to provide a comprehensive overview.
Common Names
- Black-footed Pixie-cup Lichen
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- Scientific Name: Cladonia albonigra Brodo & Ahti, 1996
- Family: Cladoniaceae
- Group: Lichen
- Synonym: Cladonia aberrans (Abbayes) Stuckenb.
- Taxonomic Status: Provisionally accepted
Distribution and Habitat
- Originally found in British Columbia, Canada, specifically on Graham Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
- Also found in Russia and confirmed in Sweden.
- Specimens have been observed in Norway.
- Observed at an altitude of 640 m on a steep face of a boulder in the low alpine region.
Morphological Characteristics
- Figure 5 in one source provides a visual reference, with a scale of 5 mm.
Further Information
- Discover Life provides a page about the biology, natural history, ecology, identification, and distribution of Cladonia albonigra.
- LIAS (A Global Information System for Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Ascomycetes in the Catalogue of Life) offers a specific view of this species.
- Information is also available via the Index Fungorum checklist and GBIF Backbone Taxonomy.
- Specimen images are available at the Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway.
- Additional media details and observations are recorded by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).