A pale greenish white species with a slender habit that has peeling cortex and squamules, leaving parts of the podetium decorticate.
Thallus: C-, K+- yellow, UV-
Cladonia scabriuscula has a scattered, perhaps more eastern distribution in Scotland where it occurs peat in upland and lowland situations as well as on old dykes. BLS distribution map
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