Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cladonia confusa f. bicolor
liquen del reno de Galápagos, Galapagos reindeer lichen
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Cladoniaceae
Genus
Cladonia
Species
confusa
Subspecies
f. bicolor
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Cladina confusa f. bicolor, Cladonia polia R. Sant.; Bungartz: distributed as exsiccate of Cladonia polia (Weber, Lich. Exs. 106; see Weber 1981), synonymized by Ahti (2000) with Cladina confusa f. bicolor.
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.
- 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.
- 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 confusa f. bicolor", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2527. Accessed 4 November 2026.