''Cladonia transcendens'' or the graduated cup lichen is a species of fruticose,

cup lichen A cup is an open-top used to hold hot or cold liquids for pouring or drinking; while mainly used for drinking, it also can be used to store solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). Cups may be made of glass, metal, china, clay, ...

in the family Cladoniaceae.

Taxonomy

The lichen was first formally described by Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in the first volume of his 1887 work ''Monographia cladoniarum'' with the name ''Cladonia corrallifera'' γ. ''transcendens''. The

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material was collected from Oregon by

David Lyall David Lyall (1817–1895) MD, RN, FLS, was a Scottish botanist who explored Antarctica, New Zealand, the Arctic and North America and was a lifelong friend of Sir Joseph Hooker. He was born in Auchenblae, Kincardineshire, Scotland on 1 June 181 ...

in 1858. In 1898, Vainio raised this taxon to species level.

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 ...

and Paula DePriest put forth a proposal to conserve the name ''Cladonia transcendens'' with a conserved

in 2005. This was later accepted by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi.

References

transcendens Lichen species Lichens described in 1887 Taxa named by Edvard August Vainio {{Lecanorales-stub

Taxonomy

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