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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.^[1] Ludwig Emanuel Schaerer transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1850.^[2] In North America, it is known colloquially as the red-fruited pixie cup^[3] or the red-fruited cup lichen.^[4]

^ Flörke, H.G. (1808). "Beschreibung der rothfrüchtigen deutschen Becherflechten". Magazin der Gesellschaft Naturforschenden Freunde Berlin (in German). 2: 212–226.
^ Schaerer, L.E. (1850). Enumeratio Critica Lichenum Europaeorum quos et Nova Methodo Digerit. Accedunt Tabulae Decem, quibus Cuncta Lichenum Europaeorum Genera et Subgenera in Lapidem Delineata et per Partes Colorata Illustrantur (in Latin). Bern: Sumtibus Auctoris Excudebat Officina Staempfliana. p. 186.
^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.
^ "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.

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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. Ludwig Emanuel Schaerer transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1850. In North America, it is known colloquially as the red-fruited pixie cup or the red-fruited cup lichen.