I hear you, fam
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


