Cladonia polydactyla
A variable Cladonia with grey, many-branched podetia which have squamules at the bottom and are farinose or sorediate at the top. Fruiting cups are sometimes present and these are bright red.
On rotting wood and posts and also on stumps and soil in woodlands and heaths.
All year.
Reasonably common.
Locally common.
David Nicholls
Bradgate Park
21 February 2025
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Lichens
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Lecanorales
- Family:
- Cladoniaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 15/06/2013 (Ivan Pedley)
- Last record:
- 21/02/2025 (Nicholls, David)
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