BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Cladonia merochlorophaea
gritty pixie-cup
| Scientific Name: | Cladonia merochlorophaea Asah. | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | gritty pixie-cup | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Esslinger, T. L. 2018. A cumulative checklist for the lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada, Version 22. Opuscula Philolichenum 17:6-268. [http://sweetgum.nybg.org/philolichenum/] | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Lichen | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | CLADMER | ||||||||||
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| Global Status: | G5 (May 2015) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S4 (Apr 2019) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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| Global Habitat Comments: | Grows on soil containing much humus, on tundra heaths, and on bogs. Type II is said to be more mesic than type I, occurring among mosses and on rotting wood (Thomson 1984). | ||||||||||
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| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | Circumpolar and boreal but with a few collections having been made in tundras (Thomson 1984). | ||||||||||
| Disjunct, more common elsewhere: | N | ||||||||||
| Peripheral, major distribution elsewhere: | N | ||||||||||
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Thomson, J.W. 1984. American arctic lichens. 1. The macrolichens. Columbia University Press, N.Y. 504 pp. |
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Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. Species Summary: Cladonia merochlorophaea. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 8, 2026).