''Cladonia islandica'' is a species of
fruticose lichen in the family
Cladoniaceae.
It is
endemic to
Iceland, where it grows on
moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...
-covered rocks and stone walls. The lichen was
described as a new species in 2009 by Hördur Kristinsson and
Teuvo Ahti
Teuvo ("Ted") Tapio Ahti (born 1934) is a Finnish botanist and lichenologist. He has had a long career at the University of Helsinki that started in 1963, and then following his retirement in 1997, at the Botanical Museum of the Finnish Museum ...
. The
type specimen was collected by the first author from Herdisarvik,
Ãrnessýsla (
Southern Region) in 1978. It has been collected from various locations around Iceland, but is most common around the lake
Mývatn. It contains
fumarprotocetraric acid as its main
lichen product, and trace amounts of
protocetraric acid and
confumarprotocetraric acid
See also
*
List of ''Cladonia'' species
References
islandica
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2009
Lichens of Iceland
Taxa named by Teuvo Ahti
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