Cladonia cornuta
Species of lichen
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Cladonia cornuta or the bighorn cup lichen[2] is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was first described as a new species by Swedish lichenologist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum.[3] German biologist Georg Franz Hoffmann transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1791.[4] The lichen has a distribution that is circumpolar, boreal, and arctic. It has also been recorded from the Southern Hemisphere.[5]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Cladoniaceae |
| Genus: | Cladonia |
| Species: | C. cornuta |
| Binomial name | |
| Cladonia cornuta | |
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In North America, Cladonia cornuta is colloquially known as the bighorn Cladonia.[6]
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