Definition of Genus Cladonia

1. Noun. Type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia.

Exact synonyms: Cladonia
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Cladoniaceae, Family Cladoniaceae
Member holonyms: Arctic Moss, Cladonia Rangiferina, Reindeer Lichen, Reindeer Moss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cladonia

genus Cimicifuga
genus Cinchona
genus Cinclus
genus Cinnamomum
genus Circaea
genus Circaetus
genus Circus
genus Cirsium
genus Cistothorus
genus Cistus
genus Citellus
genus Citharichthys
genus Citroncirus
genus Citrullus
genus Citrus
genus Cladonia (current term)
genus Cladorhyncus
genus Cladrastis
genus Clangula
genus Clathrus
genus Claviceps
genus Claytonia
genus Cleistes
genus Clematis
genus Cleome
genus Clethra
genus Clethrionomys
genus Clianthus
genus Cliftonia
genus Clinopodium

Literary usage of Genus Cladonia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... at once separates it," from the genus Cladonia, in which the species has been hitherto included ; still there is much uncertainty in the total absence ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1905)
"... and set forth in great detail in one hundred and three pages of his monograph of the genus Cladonia, that the present writer began to realize something ..."

3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1905)
"... .as viewed by Wainio, and set forth in great detail in one hundred and three pages of his monograph of the genus Cladonia, that the present writer began ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1859)
"... are sufficient of themselves to separate this puzzling lichen from the genus Cladonia, in which it has hitherto been almost uniformly placed. 7. ..."

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