Order: Lecanorales       Family: Cladoniaceae Species: Cladonia portentosa Reindeer lichen Growth type fruticose. Photos: On wet heath near bog. Ballingeary, Cork, SW Ireland. Confirmed by John Douglass Variable. Primary squamules absent. Very branched, whitish to green-grey and forming loose compact tufts. Axils often perforate. Branching mainly trichotomous, can be dichotomous at ends. Branchlet tips spreading in all directions. Heaths, peaty moorland, dunes. K-, KC+ yellow, P- Similar: Cladonia ciliata and Cladonia arbuscula

     






Cladonia portentosa. Ballingeary area, Co.Cork. December 2008 and November 2009