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Rhizocarpon pusillum

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Rhizocarpon pusillum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Rhizocarpales
Family: Rhizocarpaceae
Genus: Rhizocarpon
Species:
R. pusillum
Binomial name
Rhizocarpon pusillum
Runemark (1956)
Synonyms
  • Catocarpus pusillum (Runemark) Oxner (1968)

Rhizocarpon pusillum is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It is a lichenicolous lichen, meaning it is parasitic on other lichens.[1] It was formally described as a new species in 1956 by the Swedish lichenologist Hans Runemark.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340–425. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340.
  2. ^ Runemark, H. (1956). Studies in Rhizocarpon. I. Taxonomy of the yellow species in Europe. Opera Botanica. Vol. 2. p. 63.