Rhizoplaca

Rhizoplaca
Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Rhizoplaca
Zopf (1905)
Type species
Rhizoplaca opaca
(Ach.) Zopf (1905)
Synonyms

Rhizoplaca is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Lecanoraceae. Members of the genus are commonly called rimmed navel lichens because of their umbilicate growth form and lecanorine (rimmed with thallus-like tissue)apothecia, also rock-posy lichen and rockbright.: 118 

Species

As of August 2023, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 17 species of Rhizoplaca:

References

  1. ↑ "Synonymy. Current Name: Rhizoplaca Zopf, Justus Liebigs Annln Chem. 340: 291 (1905)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Rhizoplaca". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  3. ↑ Results for Common Name Rimmed navel lichen, USDA
  4. ↑ Smith HB, Dal Grande F, Muggia L, Keuler R, Divakar PK, Grewe F, Schmitt I, Lumbsch HT, Leavitt SD (2020). "Metagenomic data reveal diverse fungal and algal communities associated with the lichen symbiosis". Symbiosis. 82 (1–2): 133–147. doi:10.1007/s13199-020-00699-4. hdl:11577/3440801.
  5. ↑ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  6. ↑ McCune, B.; Rosentreter, R. (2007). Biotic Soil Crust Lichens of the Columbia Basin. Corvallis, Oregon: Northwest Lichenologists. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-9790737-0-0.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Leavitt, Steven; Fernández-Mendoza, Fernando; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Sohrabi, Mohammad; Divakar, Pradeep; Lumbsch, Thorsten; St. Clair, Larry (2013). "DNA barcode identification of lichen-forming fungal species in the Rhizoplaca melanophthalma species-complex (Lecanorales, Lecanoraceae), including five new species". MycoKeys (7): 1–22. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.7.4508.
  8. ↑ Brinker, Sam; Evankow, Ann M.; Timdal, Einar (2022). "Rhizoplaca ouimetensis sp. nov. (Lecanoraceae) from Ontario, the first sorediate species in the genus". The Bryologist. 125 (4): 513–523. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-125.4.513.