Nephroma resupinatum, commonly known as the pimpled kidney lichen,[2] is a species of foliose lichen in the family Peltigeraceae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum as Lichen resupinatus.[3] Erik Acharius transferred it to the genus Nephroma in 1810.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Peltigeraceae |
| Genus: | Nephroma |
| Species: | N. resupinatum
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| Nephroma resupinatum | |
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The lichen has a brown to greyish-brown thallus that is tomentose, especially at the tips of the lobes. The lobes, which measure 5–10 mm wide, are covered with lobules, particularly along the margins and the cracks in the thallus surface, as well as pimple-like bumps (sometimes clumped together) visible through the tomentum. It grows on moss-covered rocks and on trees, usually in humid forests.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Nephroma resupinatum (L.) Ach". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ a b Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 457. ISBN 978-0300082494.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl. Species Plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1153.
- ^ Acharius, Erik (1810). Lichenographia Universalis. Lichenographia Universalis (in Latin). Gottingen: Apud Iust. Frid. Danckwerts. p. 521.
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