Xanthoria
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Xanthoria (Fr.) Th. Fr. |
| Type species | |
| Xanthoria parietina (L.) Beltr.
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Xanthoria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae.[1] Common names include orange lichen,[2] orange wall lichen,[3]: 134 and sunburst lichen.[3]: 134 They can be identified by their characteristic squamulose morphology with distinctive "fairy cups".
Species include:[2]
- [4]
- Xanthoria elegans – elegant orange wall lichen, elegant sunburst lichen
- – hooded sunburst lichen[5]
- - Hasse's orange wall lichen, poplar sunburst lichen[5]
- [4]
- Xanthoria parietina – common orange lichen, yellow scale, maritime sunburst lichen, shore lichen[5]
- – pin-cushion sunburst lichen[5]
- [5] – powdery sunburst lichen
Gallery[]
Xanthoria sp.
References[]
- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009.
- ^ a b Xanthoria. USDA PLANTS.
- ^ a b Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
- ^ a b Kärnefelt, I., et al. (2002). Xanthoria karrooensis and X. alexanderbaai (Teloschistaceae), two new lichen species from southern Africa. The Lichenologist 34(4) 333–46.
- ^ a b c d e Waleski Joe (2007). Lichens of the North Woods Duluth, MN: Kollath+Stensaas
External links[]
Media related to Xanthoria at Wikimedia Commons- Index Fungorum
Categories:
- Teloschistales
- Lichens
- Teloschistales genera
- Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries
- Teloschistales stubs