Cladonia squamosa
This is a grey green lichen. Podetia tall, erect, very variable in shape, usually with one or more erect branches. The overall appearance is of a very granular coated plant.
Found in woodland, in heathland and on moorland, on rotting wood, on degraded peat and on boulders.
All year round
Widespread and locally common in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Beacon Hill
16 December 2023
David Nicholls
Beacon Hill
16 December 2023
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
12 January 2012
var. squamosa
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
12 January 2012
var. squamosa
Steve Mathers
Beacon Hill CP
22 February 2017
David Nicholls
Beacon Hill Country Park
22 February 2017
Melinda Bell
Moira,Maybury Wood
05 February 2021
on soggy clay
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Lichens
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Lecanorales
- Family:
- Cladoniaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 12/01/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 16/12/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Bardon Hill
15 February 2013
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
15 December 2012
David Nicholls
Bardon Hill
15 February 2013
