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Fellhanera Bouteillei
''Fellhanera bouteillei'' is a species of leaf-dwelling lichen belonging to the family Pilocarpaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en .... References Pilocarpaceae Lichen species Lichens described in 1847 Cosmopolitan lichens Taxa named by John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières {{Lecanorales-stub ...
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Antonín Vězda
Antonín (Toni) Vězda (25 November 1920 – 10 November 2008) was a Czech lichenologist. After completing a university education that was postponed by World War II, Vězda taught botany at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech University of Life Sciences. In 1958, he was dismissed from his university position as a result of the restrictions placed on academic freedoms by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, communist regime in power. He eventually was hired as a lichen researcher by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, who allowed him to work from his apartment, which served also as an office and herbarium. Vězda was a productive worker, publishing nearly 400 scientific papers between 1948 and 2008, most solitarily, describing hundreds of new taxon, taxa, and building up a herbarium scientific collection, collection of more than 300,000 specimens. He was praised for his series of exsiccata, exsiccates – sets of dried herbarium specimens – assembled with bot ...
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Foliicolous Lichen
A foliicolous lichen is a lichen which grows on the surfaces of living leaves of vascular plants, usually inhabiting the upper surface ('' epiphyllous'') but sometimes also the lower surface ('' hypophyllous''). Foliicolous lichens largely occur in tropical environments and of the over 800 foliicolous lichens accepted (as of 2008) over 600 of these are known from the tropics. Unlike most lichens which are common in humid but cool and temperate climates, these tropical lichens are more suited to the higher temperatures and lower light levels present beneath the rainforest canopy, where they are involved in the nutrient cycle and water retention. Chlorophyta are common photosynthetic partner phycobionts of epiphyllous lichens.Lichen Photobionts, University of Nebraska Omaha



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Pilocarpaceae
The Pilocarpaceae are a family of crustose lichens in the order Lecanorales. The species of this family have a cosmopolitan distribution and have been found in a variety of climatic regions. Pilocarpaceae was circumscribed by Alexander Zahlbruckner in Adolf Engler's influential 1905 work '' Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien''. In 2004, the family Micareaceae included the genera; '' Helocarpon'', '' Micarea'', ''Psilolechia'', '' Roccellinastrum'', and ''Scutula''. Then in 2005, molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial rDNA sequences showed that the genus ''Helocarpon'' was not related to the ''Micareaceae'' family and the rest of the genus were related to the Pilocarpaceae family and other genera. Description Pilocarpaceae species are crustose and have ascomata in the form of an brightly-coloured apothecium with a poorly-developed margin comprising loosely-intertwined hyphae. The ascospores are hyaline and often elongated with one or more septa. Genera Pilocarpaceae contains ...
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Cosmopolitan Distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and environmental conditions, though this is not always so. Killer whales ( orcas) are among the most well-known cosmopolitan species on the planet, as they maintain several different resident and transient (migratory) populations in every major oceanic body on Earth, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica and every coastal and open-water region in-between. Such a taxon (usually a species) is said to have a ''cosmopolitan'' distribution, or exhibit cosmopolitanism, as a species; another example, the rock dove (commonly referred to as a ' pigeon'), in addition to having been bred domestically for centuries, now occurs in most urban areas around the world. The extreme opposite of a cosmopolitan species is an endemic (native) species, or one foun ...
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Lichen Species
A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), mutualistic relationship.Introduction to Lichens – An Alliance between Kingdoms
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Lichens are the lifeform that first brought the term symbiosis (as ''Symbiotismus'') into biological context. Lichens have since been recognized as important actors in nutrient cycling and producers which many higher trophic feeders feed on, such as reindeer, gastropods, nematodes, mites, and springtails. Lichens have properties different from those of their component organisms. They come in man ...
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Cosmopolitan Lichens
Cosmopolitan may refer to: Internationalism * World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship * Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community * Cosmopolitan localism, a way of linking local communities in global networks that bring production and consumption closer together Media * ''Cosmopolitan'' (magazine), a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as "''Cosmo''" * ''Cosmopolitan'' (film), a 2003 film starring Roshan Seth * Cosmopolitan Television, a satellite/cable television channel * Cosmopolitan Productions, a defunct United States film production company Science * Cosmopolitan distribution, in biogeography, biological categories which can be found almost anywhere around the world * Cosmopolitan (''Vanessa cardui'' or painted lady, a butterfly * Cosmopolitan (''Leucania loreyi'' or false army worm, a moth Vehicles * CC-109 Cosmopolitan, an aircraft, the RCAF version of the Canadair ...
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