Cladonia bellidiflora

In 1907 Zopf (764) isolated from the lichen Cladonia bellidiflora a red-brown crystalline compound which he named bellidiflorin. More than 80 years later Alagna et al. (7) showed by X-ray crystallography that bellidiflorin is an iron complex of the 6/3-anthraquinone gracili-formin (186) the coordination of the ligands to the iron atom is shown in Fig. 10. 

Kinoshita et al. 454) have described improved conditions for the isolation of protoplasts from the lichens Cladia aggregala, Cladonia bellidiflora, C. boryi, C. pleurota and C. stellaris. 

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