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Lecidea
Sign in to saveLecidea is a genus of crustose lichens with a carbon-black ring or outer margin (exciple) around the fruiting body disc (apothecium), usually (or always) found growing on (saxicolous) or in (endolithic) rock. Lichens that have such a black exciple are called lecideine, meaning "like Lecidea, even if they are not in this genus. Members of the genus are commonly called disk lichens or tile lichens.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 105 inbound references to Lecidea, and connects out to lichen, Erik Acharius and ascospore.
It is catalogued under topics including Lecidea, Lecideales genera and Lichen genera.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderLecideales
- FamilyLecideaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11,711
- With media
- 6,265
- Family
- Lecideaceae
- Collections
- US, COLO, WIS, LSU, TENN
- Recorded in
- United States, Finland, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lecideaceae
- Image
- Lecidea fuscoatra 98284.jpg
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- taxon name
- Lecidea
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Lecidea fuscoatra
- taxon common name
- Granietkorst
- Commons category
- Lecidea
- taxon author citation
- Ach.
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Description
- Selected species
- References
Lecidea is a genus of crustose lichens with a carbon-black ring or outer margin (exciple) around the fruiting body disc (apothecium), usually (or always) found growing on (saxicolous) or in (endolithic) rock. Lichens that have such a black exciple are called lecideine, meaning "like Lecidea, even if they are not in this genus. Members of the genus are commonly called disk lichens or tile lichens.
==Taxonomy==
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