Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 610-650 : 629

Lichen rangiferinus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1153. 1753.

"Habitat in Alpibus, Europae frigidae sylvis sterilissimis, Alpestris differt a sylvatico, ut flos plenus a simplici." RCN: 8238.

Lectotype (Nourish & Oliver in Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 6: 259. 1974): Herb. Linn. No. 1273. 240 ( LINN) .

Current name: Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg. ( Cladoniaceae).

Note: See review by Jørgensen & al. (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 115: 347-349, 380, f. 53. 1994).