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Lecanora caesiorubella
Crustose lichen with pinkish brown, sessile apothecia and a gray thallus.
This is the first spotting of this species on Project Noah.
Growing on a tree in a mixed forest with mostly oak and pine.
Spotted on Apr 28, 2018
Submitted on May 1, 2018
6 Comments
Thanks António!
Beautiful and rare organism Christine,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Thank you Danièle for SOTD! The beauty and diversity of lichens is amazing! Thanks Robert and Tania for your comments.
Art always draws its subjects from the observation of Nature (how else?), and this picture shows it. Moreover, biomorphic painting is an important piece of abstract art.
Congratulations Christine!
Congrats! Nature can be strange indeed.
Congratulations Christine, your Frosted Rim Lichen is our Spotting of the Day:
"Neither an abstract painting, nor pieces of clay on cracked parchment... you are looking at a Frosted Rim Lichen (Lecanora caesiorubella), our Spotting of the Day! Lichens arise from the symbiotic relationship between algae or cyanobacteria and fungi, and can grow into a wide variety of shapes. Their growth forms include leafless branches (fruticose), flat leaf-like structures (foliose) or flakes that lie on a surface like peeling paint (crustose). Lecanora belongs to the largest order of lichenized fungi, Lecanorales, and is a perfect example of a large and heterogeneous crustose lichen genus. While the broad classification of lichens has long been based on morphological and chemical criteria, the delimitation and understanding of relationships between groups of lichens within these large genera require molecular genetic studies".
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