Analysis of lichen secondary metabolites and morphometrics in the Cladonia chlorophaea species group (Cladoniaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) in Hungary Author Farkas, Edit Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, H- 2163 Vácrátót, Alkotmány u. 2 - 4 (Hungary) farkas. edit @ ecolres. hu (corresponding author) edit@ecolres.hu Author Lőkös, László Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H- 1431 Budapest, Pf. 137 (Hungary) Author Veres, Katalin Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, H- 2163 Vácrátót, Alkotmány u. 2 - 4 (Hungary) text Cryptogamie, Mycologie 2023 2023-06-14 20 5 61 82 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.2 journal article 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a5 1776-100X 8055982 Cladonia cryptochlorophaea Asahina ( Fig. 12 ) NOTES The Hungarian specimens contain fumarprotocetraric, cryptochlorophaeic, quesitic (?), norrangiformic and thamnolic acids. a ccrg mn a ccrg mn a ccrg mn a ccrg mn a ccrg mn a ccrg mn FIG . 9. — Conditional inference tree presenting the five most important morphological variables separating species: CH , height of cup; CW , width of cup; PH , height of podetium; SW , width of podetium stalk. The order of the species at the end of the nodes is as follows: a , C. asahinae ; c , C. chlorophaea ; cr , C. cryptochlorophaea ; g , C. grayi ; m , C. merochlorophaea ; n , C. novochlorophaea . Boxes represent the highest probability of a species occurrence on the tree node. A level of p<0.05 was considered for a significant difference. Their colour is dark greenish grey, weakly black melanotic at base. The scyphi are hardly dentate at margin, the basis of the stalk is usually blackening ( Stenroos et al . 2011 , 2016 ; Ahti et al . 2013 ). The podetia are medium tall ( 1.7-15.1 mm ) with relatively wide ( 1-6.9 mm ) and short( 0.7-5.6 mm ) cup.The soredia are granulose, their diameter is medium to large (13-138 µm). C. cryptochlorophaea differs from C. asahinae in the width of cup and podetium height related to cup width, from C. chlorophaea in the height of the cup and podetium height, from C. merochlorophaea in podetium height, size of soredia and width of stalk and from C. novochlorophaea in the height of the cup and the ratio of the corticated part of the podetium to the height of the whole podetium. None of the measured characters were significantly different between C. cryptochlorophaea and C. grayi ( Table 1 ). It is a rare species, collected on calcareous and siliceous soil, in deciduous, more often in coniferous forest, at the edge of the forests or along paths between 200 and 650 m a.s.l. in the Őrség, the Vendvidék, the Little Hungarian Plain, the Bakony, the Bükk and the Zemplén Mts, more or less covering the country’s hilly regions.