Hi Alan - thank you very much for all your time and help with these - Volume 9 sounds like a very, very useful inclusion in a Cladonia-ID survival kit......
Delighted that it confirms the possible
C. incrassata, but Q6 might have to come to the Burren with me! (Hmmm, Cladonia hibernica .....
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I've been a bit suspicious of a few of my C+ reactions - I bought a thin cheap bleach (Parazone) but the ingredients are just given as 'disinfectant' which is no help.
Acidic upland peat doesn't fit the habitat details I can find for
C. foliacea but there doesn't seem to be any other possibilities with those rhizoids.......
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The second photograph clearly shows perforate cups, with the podetium continuing to grow from one side of the cup, so this is C. crispata in one of its more recognisable states. Quite different from the picture in Dobson of course, but that is C. crispata for you. Good match to illustrations in Brodo and Galløe.
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Yes, it was Dobson's
C. crispata photo that threw me .... am I right with the one below (pre-chems) as also
C. crispata?
Its going to take a long, long time to get a sense of the range of variation they've got, but it was a cladonia in my garden that first got me into this and their shapes are wonderful - total science fantasy!