Cladonia rangiferina (L.) F. H. Wigg., 1780
| Common name | Grey Reindeer Lichen | Code: CLADRAN |
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| Field Characters | Fruticose, shrub-like chlorolichen. Thallus white to silver grey. No outer cortex – surface dull, webby, & bumpy, like a woolen sock. Podetia branching tree-like, with a central ‘stem’. Often tips browned and appear brushed to one side. Pycnidia common, apothecia occasional. Pycnidial jelly clear. | |
| Similar species |
Cladonia stygia: similar color but blackened at base (inside and out)
Cladonia arbuscula susp. beringiana: thallus yellow-green, KC+yellow (usnic acid) |
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| Ecology | Terricolous, common in dry jackpine stands | |
| Chemistry | PD+ orange, K+ yellow to dingy brown, KC-, UV- (fumarprotocetraric acid, atranorin) | |
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- Cladonia rangiferina colony
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- Cladonia rangiferina browned branch tips, Jackman Flats Provincial Park, BC
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Cladonia rangiferina colony, UBC,
Collection: Trevor Goward 09-186
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- Cladonia rangiferina, jackpine stand along Old Conklin Hwy, Lac la Biche region, AB
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- Cladonia rangiferina browned branch tips, Jackman Flats Provincial Park, BC
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- Cladonia rangiferina browned branch tips, Jackman Flats Provincial Park, BC
