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Teloschistes chrysophthalmus, sometimes referred to as the gold-eye lichen or golden-eye, is a fruticose lichen with branching lobes. Their sexual structures, apothecia , are bright-orange with spiny projections ( cilia ) situated around the rim.
Acarospora thelococcoides is a pruinose (dusty whitish) verruculose (warty) crustose lichen that grows in patches up to 10 cm across that grows on soil (terricolous), especially soils made from decomposed granite. [1]: 220 [2] It grows from San Benito, California to Baja California, and inland to 930 metres (3,050 ft). [2]
In North America, one vernacular name for the lichen is pink bull's-eye lichen. [ 4 ] Placopsis lambii is distinguished by its placodioid thallus that features deeply notched and radiating edge lobes , a glossy upper surface, typically dark and somewhat rounded soralia , and non-lobate cephalodia that may be absent in certain samples.
It has wide distribution, and many common names such as common orange lichen, yellow scale, [2] maritime sunburst lichen and shore lichen. It can be found near the shore on rocks or walls (hence the epithet parietina meaning "on walls"), [ 3 ] and also on inland rocks, walls, or tree bark. [ 4 ]
Placopsis (bullseye lichen) [2] [3] is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Trapeliaceae. [4] Species.
Chrysothrix is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Chrysotrichaceae. [3] They are commonly called gold dust lichens or sulfur dust lichens, [4]: 253 because they are bright yellow to greenish-yellow, sometimes flecked with orange, and composed entirely of powdery soredia. [5] Apothecia are never present in North American specimens. [5]
Teloschistes flavicans, also known as the golden hair-lichen, is a lichenized species of fungus in the genus Teloschistes (meaning "split-ends"; [2] a reference to the plant's finely divided thallus and dense coils which appear almost like brillopads), family Teloschistaceae.
Lichina is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lichinaceae. [1] The genus contains four marine species. [2] These cyanolichens include species such as L. pygmaea or L. confinis, in which the associated cyanobiont has been assigned to the genus Rivularia.