Cladonia robbinsii A. Evans, 1944
| Common name | Yellow-tongue Cladonia |
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| Code | CLADROB |
| Field Characters | Squamulose chlorolichen. Thick yellow-green to green squamules, typically ascending to erect and reflexed when dry, unfurling when hydrated. Lower medulla varies from cream to pale yellow, rarely white. Upper cortex often shiny. Very rarely fertile, and then with very short podetia bearing medium-brown apothecia. |
| Similar species |
Cladonia symphycarpa group: Lower surface of squamules white, squamules typically thinner, chemistry variable but never usnic yellow or KC+ yellow. Some shaded colonies of Cladonia robbinsii require TLC to distinguish from C. symphycarpa.
Cladonia magyarica: Squamules grey-green, almost always with some immature, narrowly cupped podetia, PD+ orange, K+ yellow, KC- (atranorin, fumarprotocetraric acid). Other usnic Cladonia almost always produce podetia. |
| Ecology | Terricolous, on soil, litter and dead Selaginella densa in grassland and parkland sites. |
| Chemistry | PD-, K-, KC+ yellow, UV- (usnic acid, barbatic acid) |
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Donalda, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Mattheis Ranch, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Donalda, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Donalda, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, hydrated in the lab, ABMI collection, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Mattheis Ranch, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Mattheis Ranch, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Mattheis Ranch, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Mattheis Ranch, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Acadia region, SK
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Mattheis Ranch, AB
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- Cladonia robbinsii, Acadia region, SK
