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- not comparableLacking soredia.
Primary squamules persistent, small, to 2 mm long, gray to olive above, white below, esorediate or margins with granular soredia;
2007, James Wadsworth Hinds, Patricia L. Hinds, The Macrolichens of New England: Descriptions, Color Illustrations, Identification Keys, Conservation Status, The New York Botanical Garden Press, →ISBN, page 1832 more examples
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd. Primary squamules persistent or disappearing; small, or becoming as large as 12 mm × 5 mm, irregularly crenately incised or lobed; yellowish, the base becoming orange to blackish brown; esorediate.
1979, John Walter Thomson, Lichens of the Alaskan Arctic Slope, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 130[…]1-4 cm tall, not scyphose, simple at base, branching above, each branch longitudinally grooved and becoming split, with open axils, rarely with scattered squamules along the poderia, esorediate, greyish white.
1995, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, page 64
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