Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cladonia macilenta
liquen del soldado, Soldier lichen
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Cladoniaceae
Genus
Cladonia
Species
macilenta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cladonia balfourii, fide Ahti (2000); F. Bungartz: all Galapagos specimens contain thamnolic and didymic acid and specimens previously identified as C. macilenta var. bacillaris are misidentifications of C. bungartzii or C. macilenta s.str. (Yánez-Ayabaca et al. 2000), reported by Weber (1986) as Cladonia macilenta ssp. theiophila (Asahina) Asahina.
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. (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 macilenta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2535. Accessed 5 April 2026.