Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Florida Perforate Reindeer Lichen, Perforate Reindeer Lichen
Description
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Habitat
Ecology:
Cladonia perforata occurs primarily in open Florida rosemary
scrub
, with large gaps
between shrubs
and plenty of bare sand and
other terrestrial
lichens. These scrub habitats are fossil inland
dunes or stable coastal dunes. It occupies the highest topographic
positions throughout most of this range
. In the North Gulf
Coast
region, it can occur downslope into seasonal depressional wetlands
with dense herbaceous cover
, but saltwater
overwash will kill it.
C.
perforata grows slowly and branches once a year. Fragmentation
(vegetative reproduction) can happen via trampling or natural breakage
after decades of growth in situ
.[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.6 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.7 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)
- 13 Marine Coastal/Supratidal
- 13.3 Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Sand Dunes [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Fungi
()
- T.L. Jahn & F.F. Jahn, 1949 ex R.T. Moore, 1980
- Fungi
- Subkingdom:
Dikarya
()
- D.S. Hibbett et al., in D.S. Hibbett et al., 2007
- Phylum:
Ascomycota
()
- H.C. Bold, 1957 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Sac Fungi
- Subphylum:
Pezizomycotina
()
- O.E. Eriksson & K. Winka, 1997
- Class:
Lecanoromycetes
()
- O.E. Eriksson & K. Winka, 1997
- Subclass:
Lecanoromycetidae
()
- P.M. Kirk et al., 2001 ex J. Miadlikowska et al., in D.S. Hibbett et al., 2007
- Order:
Lecanorales
()
- Nannf., 1932
- Family:
Cladoniaceae
()
- Zenker, 1827
- Genus:
Cladonia
()
- Hill ex P. Browne, 1756
- Specific descriptor:
perforata
- A.Evans
- Scientific name: - Cladonia perforata A.Evans
- Specific descriptor:
perforata
- A.Evans
- Genus:
Cladonia
(
- Family:
Cladoniaceae
(
- Order:
Lecanorales
(
- Subclass:
Lecanoromycetidae
(
- Class:
Lecanoromycetes
(
- Subphylum:
Pezizomycotina
(
- Phylum:
Ascomycota
(
- Subkingdom:
Dikarya
(
- Kingdom:
Fungi
(
Notes
Cladonia perforata was named by Alexander Evans based on collections from North Gulf Coast Florida, Okaloosa County. No other names have ever been used for this species.[1].
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Cladonia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. perforata (Florida Perforate Reindeer Lichen)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Abrahamson, W.G. 1984. Post-fire recovery of Florida Lake Wales Ridge vegetation. American Journal of Botany 71: 9-12.
- Abrahamson, W.G., Johnson, A.F., Layne, J.N. and Peroni, P.A. 1984. Vegetation of the Archbold Biological Station, Florida: An example of the southern Lake Wales Ridge. Florida Scientist 47: 209-250.
- Buckley, A. and Hendrickson, T.O. 1986. An update of the Macrolichens of Archbold Biological Station with emphasis on the status of Cladonia perforata Evans. (Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL.
- Dobson, A.P., Rodriguez, J.P., Roberts, W.M. and Wilcox, D.S. 1997. Geographic distribution of endangered species in the United States. Science 275: 550-553.
- Florida Natural Areas Inventory. 1995. Element occurrence records for Cladonia perforata. (Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, FL.
- Givens, K.T., Layne, J.N., Abrahamson, W.G. and White-Schuler, S.C. 1984. Structural changes and successional relationships of five Florida Lake Wales Ridge plant communities. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 111, 8-18.
- Hawkes, C.V. and Menges, E.E. 1996. The relationship between open space and fire for species in a xeric Florida shrubland. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 123(2): 81-92.
- IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
- Johnson, A.F., Horne, H.E. and Kindell, C. April 2000. Status of rare plant and lichen species and natural communities on Eglin Air Force Base, Santa Rosa Island, Florida – 1999/2000. Report for Cooperative Agreement Number OS MORD 95920244 between The Nature Conservancy and the US Air Force.
- Menges, E.S. and Kohfeldt, N. 1995. Life history strategies of Florida scrub plants in relation to fire. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 122(4): 282-297
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1989. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; notice of finding on a petition to list: Cladonia perforata (Perforate Reindeer Lichen). Federal Register 54(200): 42813.
- Yahr, R. 1998. Species account for Cladonia perforata. In: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Multi-species recovery plan for the threatened and endangered species of South Florida, Volume 1 of 2, The Species, pp. 6-99 – 6-107. Technical Agency Draft, Vero Beach, Florida.
- Yahr, R. 2000. Ecology and post-fire recovery of Cladonia perforata, an endangered Florida-scrub lichen. Final report to United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
- Yahr, R. 2001. In the wake of Hurricane Opal: Experimental resotration of the endangered lichen Cladonia perforata at Eglin Air Force Base. Final report to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. May 2001. 52 pp and 4 appendices.
- Yahr, R. and DePriest, P.T. In press. Ecology, life-history, and conservation of the endangered lichen Cladonia perforata. In: Rare Plant Conservation. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
- Yahr. R. 1997. Recolonization and reintroduction of Cladonia perforata Evans, an endangered lichen at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Final Report to Florida’s Division of Forestry.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Yahr, R. 2003. Cladonia perforata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:
- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Lichen herbarium, Bergen
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1352040
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14932874
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:365674
- IUCN ID: 200712
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2218102
Footnotes
- Yahr, R. 2003. Cladonia perforata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
