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]
Rhizocarpon pusillum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Rhizocarpales |
Family: | Rhizocarpaceae |
Genus: | Rhizocarpon |
Species: | R. pusillum
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Binomial name | |
Rhizocarpon pusillum Runemark (1956)
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References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Runemark, H. (1956). Studies in Rhizocarpon. I. Taxonomy of the yellow species in Europe. Opera Botanica. Vol. 2. p. 63.