''Rhizoplaca shushanii'' is a species 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 ...
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 ...
.
References
Further reading
*Kondratyuk, S. Y., et al. "Molecular phylogeny of placodioid lichen-forming fungi reveal a new genus, Sedelnikovaea." Mycotaxon 129.2 (2015): 269–282.
*Leavitt, Steven D., et al. "Resolving evolutionary relationships in lichen-forming fungi using diverse phylogenomic datasets and analytical approaches." Scientific reports 6 (2016).
Lecanoraceae
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2013
Taxa named by Helge Thorsten Lumbsch
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