Stubby-stalked Cladonia
Cladonia caespiticia (Pers.) Flörke
Stubby-stalked Cladonia: https://marylandbiodiversity.org/species/4602
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Cladonia caespiticia
in the Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina
Secure
Secure (NatureServe)[1]
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Cladoniaceae
Genus: Cladonia
Species:
C. caespiticia
Binomial name
Cladonia caespiticia
(Pers.) Flörke (1827)
Synonyms[2]
  • Baeomyces caespiticius Pers. (1794)

Cladonia caespiticia is a widespread and common species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was originally named Baeomyces caespiticius by German mycologist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1794. Heinrich Gustav Flörke transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1827.[3] In North America, it is commonly known as the stubby-stalked Cladonia.[4][5]

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  1. ^ NatureServe. "Cladonia caespiticia". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
  2. ^ "Synonymy: Cladonia caespiticia (Pers.) Flörke". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  3. ^ Floerke, H.G. (1828). De Cladoniis difficillimo Lichenum genere Commentation nova (in Latin). Rostock.
  4. ^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0300082494.
  5. ^ "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.