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Mealy Pixie-cup

Cladonia chlorophaea

3,399Records since 2000
MayPeak month
91Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan166
Feb284
Mar293
Apr273
May340
Jun279
Jul276
Aug294
Sep328
Oct327
Nov212
Dec141

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland284
2Devon England168
3Cornwall England96
4Cumbria England89
5Worcestershire England84
6Ceredigion Wales84
7Argyll and Bute Scotland67
8Herefordshire, County of England67
9Perth and Kinross Scotland66
10Kent England63
11Powys Wales63
12Gloucestershire England60
13Suffolk England52
14North Yorkshire England52
15Dorset England49
2,368 England748 Scotland253 Wales16 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,399
Peak month
May
Counties with records
91
Scientific name
Cladonia chlorophaea
Group
Lichens
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Cladoniaceae
Genus
Cladonia
Name with authority
Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Spreng.
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3678848 · GBIF 2607697