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Order Lecanorales, Family Cladoniaceae, Genus Cladonia. I found this small, extremely camouflaged creature on the forest floor, near the Iceland Moss. Interestingly, the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria says: "Several recent treatments suggest that Cladonia coniocraea and C. ochrochlora should not be recognized as separate species. An example is the recent revision of British Lichens (Cladonia) by Pino Bodas et al. (2021). They list C. ochrochlora as a synonym of C. coniocraeae, considering it a morphotype caused by environmental variation (Schwerdtner & Cordes 1992), not distinguished by molecular studies (Pino Bodas et al. 2012).
In North America Lendemer & Noel 2018 and Lendemer & Hollinger (2026) argue that the two should continue to be recognized as distinct; see comments on separate tabs of this taxon profile." Go to Consortium of Lichen Herbaria and iNaturalist for more information.
