Cladonia cornuta

Short description: Species of lichen

Cladonia cornuta

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Fungi
Division:  | Ascomycota
Class:  | Lecanoromycetes
Order:  | Lecanorales
Family:  | Cladoniaceae
Genus:  | Cladonia
Species:  |

C. cornuta

Binomial name
Cladonia cornuta

(L.) Hoffm. (1791)

Synonyms

* Lichen cornutus L. (1753)

Cladonia cornuta or the bighorn cup lichen[1] 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.[2] German biologist Georg Franz Hoffmann transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1791.[3] The lichen has a distribution that is circumpolar, boreal, and arctic. It has also been recorded from the Southern Hemisphere.[4]

In North America, Cladonia cornuta is colloquially known as the bighorn Cladonia.[5]

## See also

* List of Cladonia species

## References

1. ↑ "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". 2020. https://www.wildspecies.ca.
2. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl (1753) (in la). Species plantarum. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1151. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359173.
3. ↑ Hoffmann, Georg Franz (1791) (in la). Descriptio et adumbratio plantarum e classe cryptogamica. 2. Leipzig: Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium. p. tab. 25. https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/11722/?offset=#page=6&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=.
4. ↑ Thomson, J.W. (1984). "Cladonia". American Arctic Lichens 1. The Macrolichens. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 98–175. ISBN 978-0-231-05888-9.
5. ↑ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.

See also Wikidata entry Q3678857.

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