| Common name |
Lesser Sulphur-cup |
Code: CLADDEF |
| Field Characters |
Fruticose, club-like chlorolichen. Primary squamules small, often persistent. Podetia yellow to greenish-yellow, unbranched. Cupped, often with small red apothecia and/or pycnidia with red ostioles forming on the cup margins. Sorediate, with farinose soredia often confined to the upper stalk and cup. |
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Similar species
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Cladonia sulphurina: UV+ blue white, ironically more irregular in shape and cupping than C. deformis, often with longitudinal fissures. |
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| Ecology |
Occasional in conifer forests across Alberta, on moss, wood or soil. |
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| Chemistry |
PD-, K-, KC+ yellow, UV- (usnic acid) |
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