Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cladonia ceratophylla
cladonia, Cladonia
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Cladoniaceae
Genus
Cladonia
Species
ceratophylla
Taxon category: Accepted
F. Bungartz: Index Fungorum (Kirk 2013) erroneously treats the taxon as synonymous with Cladonia praetermissa var. praetermissa A.W. Archer, based on the Australian Checklist, but this checklist does treat only the Australian records as synonymous; in South America C. ceratophylla is a distinct species.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Ahti, T. (2000) Cladoniaceae. Flora Neotropica Monograph 78, 362 pp., The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.
- Dodge, C.W. (1935) Lichenes. In: H.K. Svenson: Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galápagos and Cocos Islands). Amer. J. Bot. 22 (2): 221.
- Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
- Kirk, P. (ed.) (2013) Index Fungorum. CABI Bioscience, CBS and Landcare Research, available online at www.indexfungorum.org.
- Stewart, A. (1912) Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands 1905-1906. No. 7: Notes on the Lichens of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th Series, 1(7): 431-446.
- Svenson, H.K. (1935) Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galapagos and Cocos Islands). Am. J. Bot. 22: 208-277.
- Weber, W.A. (1981) Lichenes Exsiccati, distributed by the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Fasc. 1-15, nos. 1-600, 1961-1979. Mycotaxon 13(1): 85-104.
- Weber, W.A. (1966) Lichenology and Bryology in the Galápagos Islands, with Check Lists of the Lichens and Bryophytes Thus Far Reported. In: Bowman, R.I. (ed.): The Galápagos. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 197-200.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
- Yánez-Ayabaca, A. Ahti, T., Bungartz, F. (2013) The Family Cladoniaceae (Lecanorales) in the Galapagos Islands Phytotaxa 129 (1): 1–33
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cladonia ceratophylla", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2516. Accessed 31 October 2026.