Rhizoplaca
Rhizoplaca | |
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Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Lecanoraceae |
Genus: | Rhizoplaca Zopf |
Type species | |
Rhizoplaca opaca (Ach.) Zopf | |
Species | |
R. aspidophora[1] |
Rhizoplaca is a genus of lichenized fungi in the Lecanoraceae family.[2] Members of the genus are commonly called rimmed navel lichens[3] because of their umbillicate growth form and lecanorine (rimmed with thallus-like tissue)apothecia, also rock-posy lichen and rockbright.[4]:118 The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 11 species.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Rimmed Navel Lichen - Rhizoplaca - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life.
- ↑ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.
- ↑ Results for Common Name Rimmed navel lichen, USDA
- ↑ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
- ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 599. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
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