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idk how many lichen people follow this blog that will understand the power of this statement, but my lichen professor got an email from a colleague earlier this week saying that there’s serious talk of changing the name of the entire cladonia genus to something else because linnaeus apparently discovered it first. we have goddamn near an entire locker of cladonia samples in the herbarium. all of the lichen textbooks list cladonia as cladonia. all the cladonia in the national lichen consortium and databases are labelled as cladonia. all the papers on cladonia have them named as cladonia. when you say cladonia, people generally know that you mean cladonia, the lichen family known for their weird fruiticose podecia. it’s not like its a small family.

linnaeus died in 1778

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Carl von Linné, aka Linneaus, death never stopped a swede from clinging to every name he created.

Its amusing going at the swedish wiki versal for different species, almost always the Linné academic name will be included somewhere, even if still not in use

It is. A weird obsession of sweden, ok

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THAT being said, Linné HATED mushrooms, and called them

“the unwashed bastards of the forest”

Because he could not wrap his head around if he should classify them as either animal or plant

Therefore i think, if he knew what we today know about lichen, he would have HATED lichen so much, because it dared to break the mold of his classification system, so honestly, Linné would probably be grateful to not be involved in lichen classification, passionate fungi of the forest hater as he was