Rhizoplaca
''Rhizoplaca'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Lecanoraceae. Members of the genus are commonly called rimmed navel lichens because of their umbilicate growth form and lecanorine (rimmed with thallus-like tissue)apothecia An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mo ..., also rock-posy lichen and rockbright.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 11 species. References Lecanoraceae Lecanorales genera Lichen genera Taxa named by Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf Taxa described in 1905 {{Lecanoromycetes-stub ...
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Rhizoplaca Peltata
''Rhizoplaca'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Lecanoraceae. Members of the genus are commonly called rimmed navel lichens because of their umbilicate growth form and lecanorine (rimmed with thallus Thallus (plural: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. Many of these organisms wer ...-like tissue) apothecia, also rock-posy lichen and rockbright.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 11 species. References Lecanoraceae Lecanorales genera Lichen genera Taxa named by Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf Taxa described in 1905 {{Lecanoromycetes-stub ...
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