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Good articleCryptothecia rubrocincta has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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January 4, 2010Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 23, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the red pigment of the Christmas wreath lichen (pictured) is one of several chemicals that help the organism survive inhospitable environments?

Name Change

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According to Index Fungorum/Species Fungorum, the currently accpeted name for this taxon is Herpthallon rubrocinctum. http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=540586 Not sure it is worth changing the name of this article or just mention it somewhere in the text. TelosCricket (talk) 19:55, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This name is now deprecated..

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This lichen is now placed under the name Herpothallon rubrocinctum:) 2600:1006:B149:27D9:191E:877F:18FB:6DA3 (talk) 04:32, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Change of genus noted; article update now on the to-do list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi/Lichen task force. Esculenta (talk) 21:08, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]