Syn.: Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina var. novochlorophaea Sipman
Lichenised.
Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata)
Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)
Note: a species of the C. grayi-group, with a primary thallus of non-coalescent small squamules and usually dark brown, scyphose podetia with a corticate, verruculose surface lacking sorediate granules, but later with corticate schizidia; confirmation by analysis of secondary chemistry is necessary for a correct identification; on acid soil over siliceous rocks and in arctic-alpine heaths; widespread but not common, in the Alps, so far with a few records only.
