| Xanthoria | |
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| Xanthoria parietina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Xanthoria (Fr.) Th.Fr. (1860) |
| Type species | |
| Xanthoria parietina (L.) Th.Fr. (1860) | |
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Xanthoria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. Common names include orange lichen, orange wall lichen,: 134 and sunburst lichen.: 134 They can be identified by their characteristic squamulose morphology with distinctive "fairy cups".
As of October 2023[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 19 species of Xanthoria.
The taxa Xanthoria coomae S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007) and Xanthoria polessica S.Y.Kondr. & Yatsyna (2013) were determined to be the same species as X. parietina in a 2020 publication. The taxon once known as Xanthoria elegans is now Rusavskia elegans, the type species of genus Rusavskia.