WIS : Lichens
University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, Lichens
Catalog #: WIS-L-0104965
Taxon: Cladonia pycnoclada (Pers.) Nyl.
Family: Cladoniaceae
Determiner: J. W. Thomson, Jr. (s.d.)
Collector: H. H. Iltis; C. M. Iltis   3191   
Date: 1963-01-03
Locality: Peru, Cuzco, Prov. Urubamba. RUINAS DE MACHU PICCHU, high above Rio Urubamba, 80 km WNW of Cuzco.
Elevation: 2500-2600 meters (8200-8528ft)
Habitat: A) Sunny lichen-covered rock walls, rock piles, terraces and cliffs at M. P. ruins. B) Weedy thickets at Hotel Turistas (Solanum spp., Triumfetta). C) Cool moist shrubby cloud forest remnants on nearly vertical rocky slopes at base of Huayna Picchu, just NW of ruins (Many ferns, lichens, Ericads, Gesneriads)
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Owner: University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS)
Owner: University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS)
Record Id: 4eee71eb-22ab-4a5a-9027-b949bc5afa3e
Occurrence ID (GUID): 5750edd2-6959-4d08-8284-e65707d20309
For additional information on this occurrence, please contact: Kenneth M. Cameron (kmcameron@wisc.edu)
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