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''Lecanactis'' is a
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of
crustose lichen Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the Substrate (biology), substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichen ...
s, commonly called old wood rimmed lichen. The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...
in 1855 by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber, who assigned ''
Lecanactis abietina ''Lecanactis abietina'' is a species of lichen belonging to the family Roccellaceae The Roccellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Arthoniomycetes. Most taxa are lichenized with green algae, although some are lichenicolous, growing on ot ...
'' as the
type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
. The
mycobiont A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.fungus A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from th ...
partner) is in the
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Roccellaceae. The
photobiont A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.algae Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular mic ...
in the genus '' Trentepohlia''.Old Wood Rimmed Lichen (''Lecanactis''), Encyclopedia of Life
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Species

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Lecanactis abietina ''Lecanactis abietina'' is a species of lichen belonging to the family Roccellaceae The Roccellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Arthoniomycetes. Most taxa are lichenized with green algae, although some are lichenicolous, growing on ot ...
'' *'' Lecanactis borbonica'' *'' Lecanactis canariensis'' *'' Lecanactis citrina'' *'' Lecanactis coniochlora'' *'' Lecanactis latispora'' *'' Lecanactis leprarica'' – Cameroon *'' Lecanactis luteola'' *'' Lecanactis malmideoides'' – South America *'' Lecanactis minuta'' *'' Lecanactis minutissima'' *'' Lecanactis mollis'' *'' Lecanactis neozelandica'' *'' Lecanactis platygraphoides'' *'' Lecanactis quassiae'' *'' Lecanactis rubra'' – Madagascar *'' Lecanactis spermatospora'' *'' Lecanactis subdilleniana'' *'' Lecanactis subfarinosa'' *'' Lecanactis submollis'' *'' Lecanactis sulphurea''


References

Roccellaceae Arthoniomycetes genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 1855 Taxa named by Gustav Wilhelm Körber {{Arthoniomycetes-stub