''Rhizoplaca'' is a
genus
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of
lichen
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), m ...
ized
fungi
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in the family
Lecanoraceae
The Lecanoraceae are a family of lichen
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 c ...
.
Members of the genus are
commonly called rimmed navel lichens because of their
umbilicate growth form and
lecanorine (rimmed with
thallus
Thallus (: 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. A thallus usually names the entir ...
-like tissue)
apothecia
An ascocarp, or ascoma (: ascomata), 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. As ...
, also rock-posy lichen and rockbright.
[Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ]
Species
,
Species Fungorum
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(in the
Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxono ...
) accepts 17 species of ''Rhizoplaca'':
* ''
Rhizoplaca arbuscula''
* ''
Rhizoplaca callichroa''
* ''
Rhizoplaca glaucophana''
* ''
Rhizoplaca haydenii''
* ''
Rhizoplaca idahoensis''
* ''
Rhizoplaca melanophthalma''
* ''
Rhizoplaca nigromarginata''
* ''
Rhizoplaca novomexicana
''Rhizoplaca novomexicana'' is a species of saxicolous lichen, saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. Found in North America, the lichen was first species description, formally described as a new species in 1932 ...
''
* ''
Rhizoplaca occulta''
* ''
Rhizoplaca opaca''
* ''
Rhizoplaca ouimetensis''
* ''
Rhizoplaca pachyphylla''
* ''
Rhizoplaca parilis''
* ''
Rhizoplaca polymorpha''
* ''
Rhizoplaca porteri''
* ''
Rhizoplaca shushanii''
* ''
Rhizoplaca weberi''
References
Lecanoraceae
Lecanorales genera
Lichen genera
Taxa named by Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf
Taxa described in 1905
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