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Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
     
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References
     
     
Cladonia rigida var. acuta (Taylor) A.W.Archer
     
  Muelleria 7: 175 (1990); Cenomyce acuta Taylor, London J. Bot. 6: 186 (1847); Cladonia acuta (Taylor) Nyl. ex Hue, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. sér. 3, 2: 32 (1890). T: islands of the Pacific, J.D.Hooker; holo: FH. ****Cladonia squamosula var. subsquamosula A.W.Archer, Muelleria 6: 384 (1987). T: Wentworth Falls, N.S.W., 1 June 1985, A.W.Archer 1751; holo: MEL; iso: NSW.  
     
  Morphologically similar to var. rigida but distinguished from it by the presence of homosekikaic acid.
     
  Occurs in all States except Qld; also on Lord Howe Is. and Norfolk Is.; grows on dead wood.  
     
   
     
     
  Archer (1992b)  

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