Rhizoplaca
| Rhizoplaca | |
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| Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Lecanoraceae |
| Genus: | Rhizoplaca Zopf (1905) |
| Type species | |
| Rhizoplaca opaca (Ach.) Zopf (1905)
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R. aspidophora[1] | |
Rhizoplaca is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Lecanoraceae.[2] Members of the genus are commonly called rimmed navel lichens[3] because of their umbillicate growth form and lecanorine (rimmed with thallus-like tissue)apothecia, also rock-posy lichen and rockbright.[4]: 118 The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 11 species.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Rimmed Navel Lichen - Rhizoplaca - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life.
- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
- ^ Results for Common Name Rimmed navel lichen, USDA
- ^ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
- ^ 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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