Cladonia pleurota
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| Cladonia pleurota | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Cladoniaceae |
| Genus: | Cladonia |
| Species: | C. pleurota |
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| Cladonia pleurota | |
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Cladonia pleurota is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was first formally described as a new species by German lichenologist Heinrich Gustav Flörke in 1808 as Capitularia pleurota.[2] Ludwig Emanuel Schaerer transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1850.[3] In North America, it is known colloquially as the red-fruited pixie cup[4] or the red-fruited cup lichen.[5]
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