Observations.--Although the presence of attached
squamules at the podetia are rather rare (James 2009) in our material is very frequent.
turgida are the inflated
squamules with rounded margins and the smooth surface.
Squamules 2-3 mm long, K+ yellow turning to red Cladonia polycarpoides 3.
pocillum is especially well-developed with large
squamules that frequently merge into a "foliose-like" thallus mat (see the excellent photograph in Brodo et al.
Shiny; roughly puntured with irregularly shaped uneven-sized punctures; sharply covered with erect, short
squamules. Occipital angle narrowly rounded, occipital impression prominent, triangular in shape.
Squamules of primary thallus 200-280 [micron]m thick, cortex 37-55 [micron]m thick, algal layer 25-37 [micron]m, medulla 150-200 [micron]m.
Thallus and podetia K-, esorediate; podetia wholly corticate, slightly branched at the apex; basal
squamules finely divided, more than 2mm long Cladonia cristatella 1.
2.6 Cladonia
squamules 68.4 Cladonia subfurcata 34.2 Cladonia subulata 7.9 Cladonia turgida Cladonia uncialis Cladonia verticillata 2.6 Hypogymnia sp.
Cladonia verticillata has small
squamules with white lower surface, while C.
The primary thallus has rounded and persistent
squamules, and develop short and regular podetia, partially or totally covered with farinose soredia.
Specimens from Madrid were richer and were collected on algal films on the top of siliceous boulders, overgrowing bryophytes and unidentified Cladonia
squamules; other lichen species growing on the top of these boulders and within bryophytes were Polychidium muscicola and Massalongia carnosa.