genus
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of
foliicolous
Foliicolous refers to the growth habit of certain lichens, algae, and fungi that prefer to grow on the leaves of vascular plants
Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes () or collectively Tracheophyta (), form a large group of land plant ...
(leaf-inhabiting)
lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.Ramalinaceae.
Taxonomy
''Badimia'' was
circumscribed
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by Czech lichenologist
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* Antonin, Jarocin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship
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in 1986 as a segregate of the genus ''Bacidia'', and originally contained six species. The genus was formerly placed in the family Ectolechiaceae or the Pilocarpaceae, but
molecular
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analysis showed that the
type species
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'' Badimia dimidiata'' nested within the Ramalinaceae. This familial placement has been accepted in recent large-scale updates of fungal classifications.