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).