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Pulchrocladia
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Pulchrocladia

Pulchrocladia is a genus of fruticose lichens in the family Cladoniaceae. It has three species. The genus was circumscribed in 2018 by lichenologists Soili Stenroos, Raquel Pino-Bodas, Helge Thorsten Lumbsch, and Teuvo Ahti. The genus name (from the Latin pulchro, meaning "pretty" or "beautiful") refers to "the beautiful morphology of its species".

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Coral lichen

speciesPulchrocladia retipora

Pulchrocladia ferdinandii

speciesPulchrocladia ferdinandii

Pulchrocladia corallaizon

speciesPulchrocladia corallaizon

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 915053.