Cladonia transcendens

Cladonia transcendens or the graduated cup lichen^[1] is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae.

Cladonia transcendens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Cladoniaceae
Genus:	Cladonia
Species:	C. transcendens
Binomial name
Cladonia transcendens (Vain.) Vain. (1898)
Synonyms
Cladonia corallifera var. transcendens Vain. (1887)

Taxonomy

The lichen was first formally described by Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in the first volume of his 1887 work Monographia cladoniarum with the name Cladonia corrallifera γ. transcendens.^[2] The type material was collected from Oregon by David Lyall in 1858. In 1898, Vainio raised this taxon to species level.^[3]

Teuvo Ahti and Paula DePriest put forth a proposal to conserve the name Cladonia transcendens with a conserved type in 2005.^[4] This was later accepted by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi.^[5]

See also

• List of Cladonia species

References

1. "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.
2. Wainio, Edvard August (1887). Monographia Cladoniarum universalis: I. Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. Vol. 4. pp. 1–509.
3. Hue, A.-M. (1898). "Lichenes extra-Europaei". Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. Série 3 (in Latin). 10: 262.
4. Ahti, Teuvo; Depriest, Paula (2005). "(1657–1665) Proposals to conserve eight names and reject one species name in Cladoniaceae (Fungi)". Taxon. 54 (1): 183–188. doi:10.2307/25065321. JSTOR 25065321.
5. Gams, W. (2005). "Report of the Committee for Fungi: 13". Taxon. 54 (3): 828–830. doi:10.2307/25065447. JSTOR 25065447.