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Old 17-09-2009, 11:30 PM
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Re: Yet Another Cladonia for ID Help Please

Yes, as Jenny has suggested, the main species here is C. chlorophaea, including the podetium that is proliferating from the margins.

As I have said before, C. chlorophaea is regarded as an aggregate of several species (i would call them subspecies) that are weakly defined morphologically and can be identified with certainty only by chemistry. I would guess that this is C. chlorophaea in the strict sense, but I don't have enough experience of the group yet, even if identification from photographs could be reliable.

Yes, the almost horizontal one looks like it has truly red pycnidia, so it is something different. In my view, not enough here for anything more than a speculative guess, so I'll pass on the ID.

However, top right, out of focus in the background, and looking rather antler-like, you do look to have rather old C. furcata.

Alan
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