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Brown Fruited Cup Cladonia Lichen

Brown-fruited Cup Cladonia, Cladonia Pyxidata (L.) Fr.

Habit and habitat.-On stumps and on the earth.

Vegetative organs (thallus).-Primary, thallus scale-like and variously lobed. Fruit-bearing branches ( podetia) hollow, 5 to 25 mm. tall, top-shaped, short-stalked, granulose, warty or scurfy; margin spreading, bearing sessile or stalked apothecia.

Fruiting organs (apothecia). -Brown.

Name.-The specific name pyxidata, suggested by the podetia, is derived from the Greek; a small box.