http://www.diva-portal.org Preprint This is the submitted version of a paper published in The Lichenologist. Citation for the original published paper (version of record): Pino-Bodas, R., Burgaz, A., Martín, M., Ahti, T., Stenroos, S. et al. (2015) The phenotypic features used for distinguishing species within the Cladonia furcata complex are highly homoplasious. The Lichenologist, 47: 287-303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0024282915000225 Access to the published version may require subscription. N.B. When citing this work, cite the original published paper. Permanent link to this version: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-1293 The phenotypical features used for distinguishing species within the Cladonia furcata complex are highly homoplasious Raquel PINO-BODAS, Ana R. BURGAZ, María P. MARTÍN, Teuvo AHTI, Soili STENROOS, Mats WEDIN and H. Thorsten LUMBSCH R. Pino-Bodas, T. Ahti and S. Stenroos: Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
[email protected] A. R. Burgaz: Departamento Biología Vegetal 1, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. M. P. Martín: Departamento de Micología, Real Jardín Botánico, RJB-CSIC, E-28014 Madrid, Spain. M. Wedin: Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden. H. T. Lumbsch: Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. Abstract: The Cladonia furcata complex here treated comprises C. farinacea, C. furcata, C. multiformis, C. scabriuscula, C. stereoclada, and C. subrangiformis. The well known taxonomic complexity of this group is caused by wide phenotypic variation within and high morphological similarity among the species.