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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. [2] [3] [4]
Lepraria finkii is a type of lichen in the genus Lepraria. [1] Its colours range from a greenish-gray to a bluish-green. The organism is generally found everywhere in the world, but more commonly found in tropical areas; it can be spotted in shaded areas on tree trunks, overtaking bryophytes, in soil banks, and in dry niches.
The lichen's reproductive structures, or ascomata, are usually brightly coloured, and typically in the form of an apothecium – a wide, open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped fruit body. In most species, these apotheciate ascomata have a lecanorine form, in which the apothecial disc is surrounded by a pale rim of tissue known as a thalline margin .
Sri Lankan lichen biota has been studied by lichenologist Gothamie Weerakoon along with many other local and foreign researchers. The systematic classification of lichen was started in 2012 by Weerakoon and discovered more than 1200 lichen species from the island. Almost half of the described lichens are represented by the family Graphidaceae ...
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 ]
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.
Basidiolichen mycobionts consist of 172 known species (0.9% of the total number of accepted lichen species) across 15 genera, 5 families, and 5 orders within the class Agaricomycetes in the fungal division Basidiomycota. [1] The majority of described basidiolichen mycobionts belong to the genus Cora, followed by the genera Dictyonema and ...
Rusavskia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It has 12 species. [1] It is a member of the subfamily Xanthorioideae. [2] The thallus of Rusavskia is characterised by its foliose (leaf-like) structure with distinct and typically narrow lobes that curve outwards.