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Cladonia cornuta

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Species of lichen

Cladonia cornuta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 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. German biologist Georg Franz Hoffmann transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1791. The lichen has a distribution that is circumpolar, boreal, and arctic. It has also been recorded from the Southern Hemisphere.

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

See also

References

  1. "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.
  2. Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1151.
  3. Hoffmann, Georg Franz (1791). Descriptio et adumbratio plantarum e classe cryptogamica (in Latin). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium. p. tab. 25.
  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.
Taxon identifiers
Cladonia cornuta
Lichen cornutus


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