Description: Resembles C. furcata (described elsewhere) but is less tufted, more slender, and has paler green, peeling stems (podetia). The tips of the stems must be closely observed for these have a tendency to become coarse with soredia. Peaty moorlands and mountains. Local, throughout Ireland.

Key Identification Features:

• The slender, pale green, peeling stems, with tips becoming coarsely sorediate should distinguish it
• Not a sward former like C. furcata, often occurring as a few stems only; local in distribution.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

Distribution Map from NBN: Cladonia scabriuscula at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Cladonia scabriuscula at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.