LICHALP

Cladonia ciliata Stirt.

Syn.: Cladina ciliata (Stirt.) Trass, Cladina ciliata (Stirt.) Trass var. tenuis (Flörke) Ahti & M.J. Lai, Cladina leucophaea (Abbayes) Hale & W.L. Culb., Cladina tenuis (Flörke) B. de Lesd., Cladonia ciliata Stirt. f. flavicans (Flörke) Ahti & DePriest, Cladonia ciliata Stirt. var. tenuis (Flörke) Ahti, Cladonia laxiuscula (Delise) Sandst., Cladonia leucophaea Abbayes, Cladonia rangiferina (L.) F.H. Wigg. f. flavicans Flörke, Cladonia rangiferina (L.) F.H. Wigg. var. tenuis Flörke, Cladonia tenuis (Flörke) Harm., Cladonia tenuis (Flörke) Harm. var. leucophaea (Abbayes) Ahti

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a rare temperate species found on mosses in shrublands, especially in undisturbed maquis vegetation, restricted to humid areas. The species occurs in two chemotypes which rarely grow together, the colour varying from dark brown to straw-yellow in f. flavicans (Flörke) Ahti & DePriest.