More Cladonias for ID Help Please.

[Lancashire Lad]

Found today during a very wet rainy walk. (Not sure whether being wet has affected the colours etc.).

No 1 - On a moorland gritstone wall: -


No 2 - On same wall, about a metre along from No.1
Probably same, but the ones to right hand side of pic. look different?


No.3 - On a fallen & rotting trunk (Beech or Birch).
Very tentative best guesstimate - Cladonia ramulosa?


Any help with ID's will be much appreciated.

Regards,
Mike.

[JennyS]

Hi Mike - I kept hoping AlanS might happen along for these!

Working backwards I reckon you're right with C. ramulosa for No.3.
No.1 and all in 2 seem to be the same species - did you consider Cladonia chlorophae for them?

Jenny

[Lancashire Lad]

Thanks Jenny,

I did look at C.chlorophae (as well as C.fimbriata and several others too ), but couldn't come to any sensible conclusion based on what I could see in my pics.

Regards,
Mike.

[AlanS]

Hi, VERY busy at the start of a new term here, so apologies for not dropping into this forum for a while.

I agree with Jenny on the IDs.

1 & 2 are Cladonia chlorophaea.

Cladonia ramulosa is a horribly variable beast, but it has rather characteristic basal and near-basal squamules with tiny lobules and I think I can just see these in the photographs. So while I hesitate to be 100% certain, I would agree that the strong balance of probability is that this indeed is C. ramulosa.

Alan

[Lancashire Lad]

Thanks very much for the confirmations and information Alan. Much appreciated.

Hope things settle down quicky regards the new term. (WAB needs you ).

Best regards,
Mike.

[AlanS]

LOL.

Thanks.

Alan