Cladonia pleurota is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae.

It was first formally described as a new species by German lichenologist Heinrich Gustav Flörke in 1808 as Capitularia pleurota.

[1] Ludwig Emanuel Schaerer transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1850.

[2] In North America, it is known colloquially as the red-fruited pixie cup[3] or the red-fruited cup lichen.

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