SQUAMULES: not soredia
PODETIA: 10-45 mm tall, cups well-formed, unbranched, coarsely sorediate all over, often scaly toward the bottom
APOTHECIA: brown if present
CHEMISTRY: medulla K- or slightly brownish, PD+ orange-red, UV- (fumarprotocetraric acid)
Common Name: Mealy Pixie Cup
Greenish cladonia with well-formed cups that are powdery all over.
There are many look-alikes. Sorediate non-usnic-yellow, unbranched species include:
C. asahinae grayish, soredia farinose to granular C. chlorophaea greenish, soredia granular C. fimbriata grayish to greenish, soredia farinose…and many more.
