Polycauliona polycarpa is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), fruticose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.[2] It was first formally described by German botanist Georg Franz Hoffmann in 1796, as Lobaria polycarpa. It has acquired quite an extensive synonymy in its taxonomic history.[1] In 2013, Patrik Frödén and colleagues transferred it to the genus Polycauliona, as part of a molecular phylogenetics-based restructuring of the family Teloschistaceae.[3] In northern North America, one vernacular name for the species is pin-cushion sunburst lichen.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Polycauliona |
| Species: | P. polycarpa
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| Polycauliona polycarpa (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
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References
edit- ^ a b "Synonymy. Current Name: Polycauliona polycarpa (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting, in Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Nordic Jl Bot. 31(1): 53 (2013)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ "Polycauliona polycarpa (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.
- ^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. pp. 746–747. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.
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