Lichen

Description:

It is a genus of moss-like lichens in the family Cladoniaceae. They are the primary food source for reindeer and caribou. And now about Cladonia coniocraea: Podetia grey-green, slender, tapering to a point or terminating in a very narrow cup no wider than the podetium, sorediate in upper part, corticate and usually squamulose near base; basal sqamules incised, white beneath, often sparsely sorediate on margins and underside; apothecia rare, brown, on the tips of the podetia.

Habitat:

Common in woods among moss at base of trees or on rotting stumps, on mossy trunks and decaying stumps and logs. Pollution resistant, can be found in urban areas.

Notes:

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