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Hypotrachyna catawbiensis, the powder-tipped antler lichen, is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. [2] First described in 1941, it forms pale ivory to greenish leaf-like growths that attach loosely to tree bark or rocks.
Most lichens grow on stable rock surfaces or the bark of old trees, but many others grow on soil and sand. In these latter cases, lichens are often an important part of soil stabilization; indeed, in some desert ecosystems, vascular (higher) plant seeds cannot become established except in places where lichen crusts stabilize the sand and help ...
Chicitaea is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Sarrameanaceae. [1] Established in 2024, it comprises four species that grow as crusts on tree bark in forests across North America, Europe, Australia, and Thailand.
Mycoblastus sanguinarius grows in a variety of habitats, primarily growing as an epiphyte on tree bark in cool, moist environments. It is found in temperate forests across North America, Europe, and Asia. This lichen is particularly abundant in boreal and montane forests, where it often grows on the bark of coniferous trees such as spruce and ...
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 ]
The greenshields are a foliose type of lichen, a form that is leaf-like with flat sheets of tissue that can be peeled from the substrate, in the case of common greenshield, from the bark of a tree.
Rhaphidicyrtis is a fungal genus of uncertain familial placement in the order Pyrenulales. [3] [4] It consists of the single species, Rhaphidicyrtis trichosporella, a bark-dwelling, crustose lichen that forms thin, pale patches on tree bark in humid deciduous woodlands.
Chrysothrix candelaris, commonly known as the mustard powder lichen [1] or gold dust lichen, [2] is a species of leprose (powdery) lichen in the family Chrysothricaceae. It typically grows on tree bark , although it has also been recorded growing on rock .