Rhizoplaca

Rhizoplaca
Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Rhizoplaca
Zopf
Type species
Rhizoplaca opaca
(Ach.) Zopf

Rhizoplaca is a genus of lichenized fungi in the Lecanoraceae family.[1] Members of the genus are commonly called rimmed navel lichens[2] because of their umbillicate growth form and lecanorine (rimmed with thallus-like tissue)apothecia, also rock-posy lichen and rockbright.[3]:118 The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 11 species.[4]

References

  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58.
  2. Results for Common Name Rimmed navel lichen, USDA
  3. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  4. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 599. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

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