WIS : Lichens
University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, Lichens
Catalog #:
WIS-L-0110671
Taxon:
Cladonia polia R. Sant.
Family: Cladoniaceae
Family: Cladoniaceae
Determiner: S. Horneman (1964)
Collector:
Siegvart Horneman s.n.
Date: 1964-02-18
Verbatim Date: 1964-2-18
Locality:
Ecuador, Galápagos, Summit area, northwest of La Copa, in bottom of small carter, forming patches of withe in Sphagnum erythrocalyx mat; seasonally wet deprssion; stems mostly trifurcate, sometimes tetrafurcate, main stem not obvious. In processing this material the follo
Elevation:
830 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
830 m.
Habitat:
in bottom of a small crater, forming patches of white in Sphagnum erythrocalyx mat; seasonally wet depression; stems mostly trifðrcate, sometimes tetrafurcate, main stem not obvious. In processing this material the following characteristics set this apart very distinctly from C. galapa-gosensis. The plants are white, with the upper side of the branches typically browned; the stems are extremely fragile when dry, flaccid and breaking easily even when wet. The stems are smooth, without the rough lumpiness of C. galapagosensis.
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Record Id: bb013e1d-c3cd-4c5c-9713-b9542e743379
Occurrence ID (GUID):
fa492d14-d855-4ffb-a104-61d701a96265
For additional information on this occurrence, please contact:
Kenneth M. Cameron (kmcameron@wisc.edu)
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