Lipstick Powderhorn

(Cladonia macilenta)

Conservation Status
Lipstick Powderhorn
Photo by Luciearl
  IUCN Red List

not listed

 
  NatureServe

NNR - Unranked

 
  Minnesota

not listed

 
           
           
           
           
 
Description
 
 

Lipstick Powderhorn is a widespread and very common lichen. It has a worldwide distribution that includes every continent except Antarctica. It occurs across North America but is most common east of the Great Plains and on the West Coast. It is common in Minnesota. It grows on dead wood and often at the bases of trees. It sometimes grows on bare ground or on rock.

Lipstick Powderhorn produces two types of vegetative growth (thallus). The primary thallus is composed entirely of flat, overlapping, leaf-like scales (squamules) that adhere closely to the substrate. Each of these basal squamules is 1 32 to ¼ (1 to 6 mm) long and 1 16 to 3 16 (2 to 5 mm) wide. They are sometimes covered with tiny granules (soredia).

The secondary thallus is a slender vertical stalk (podetium) that rises from the center of a basal squamule. The podetia is grayish-green to whitish-green, hollow, more or less curved, unbranched or sparingly unbranched, to 13 16 (10 to 30 mm) tall, and 1 32 to (1 to 4 mm) wide. The layer of protective tissue (cortex) is thick at the base, disappears in the upper portions, and is thick below the reproductive structure (apothecium). The podetia is mealy due to a covering of soredia.

The apothecia appear as a bright red, 1 64 to (.05 to 3 mm) wide tip to many but not all of the podetia.

 
     
 

Similar Species

 
 

British Soldiers (Cladonia cristatella) is more branched at the tip.

 
     
 
Ecology
 
 

Substrate

 
 

Ground

 
     
 

Growth Form

 
 

Fruticose

 
     
 

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Distribution
 
 

Distribution Map

 

4, 24, 26, 29, 30, 77, 81.

 
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Occurrence

 
 

Widespread and very common

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
  Kingdom Fungi (fungi including lichens)  
  Subkingdom Dikarya  
  Phylum Ascomycota (sac fungi)  
  Subphylum Pezizomycotina  
  Class Lecanoromycetes (common lichens)  
  Subclass Lecanoromycetidae (shield lichens, sunburst lichens, rosette lichens, and allies)  
 

Order

Lecanorales (shield lichens, rim lichens, and allies)  
 

Suborder

Lecanorineae  
 

Family

Cladoniaceae (spindles and structured lichens)  
 

Genus

Cladonia (pixie cup lichens)  
  Mycobiont Cladonia macilenta  
  Photobiont    
       
 

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Common Names

 
 

Lipstick Powderhorn

Lipstick Powderhorn Lichen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary

Apothecium

An open, disk-shaped or cup-shaped, reproductive structure, with spore sacs on the upper surface, that produces spores for the fungal partner of a lichen. Plural: apothecia.

 

Soredium

An asexual reproductive structure of a lichen in the form of a tiny dull granule on the thallus surface that can be easily brushed off. It consists of a cluster of algal cells (the photobiont) wrapped in fungal filaments (the mycobiont), but without an outer layer of protective tissue (cortex). Plural: soredia.

 

Thallus

The vegetative body of a lichen composed of both the alga and the fungus.

 
 
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  Cladonia macilenta en el Monte San Lois (Noia). Ría de Noia.
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About

Published on Sep 10, 2017

La cladonia macilenta es un liquen poco común en la zona de la Ría de Noia, se puede encontrar en suelos minerales pobres, turberas, madera en descomposición o en las bases de los árboles mas viejos, en lugares abiertos o en bosque cerrado.
Autor: Enrique Martínez
Web: http://www.riadenoia.es

Google Translation: The cladonia macilenta is a rare lichen in the area of the Ria de Noia, it can be found in poor mineral soils, peat bogs, decomposing wood or in the bases of older trees, in open places or in closed forest.

   

 

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  Luciearl
4/2/2020

Location: Fairview Twp, Cass County

Lipstick Powderhorn  
  Luciearl
8/2/2019

Location: Cass County (Paul Bunyan Trail)

Lipstick Powderhorn  
  Luciearl
10/14/2018

Location: Fairview Twp.

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