genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
crustose lichen
Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the Substrate (biology), substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichen ...
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Verrucariaceae
The Verrucariaceae are a family of mostly lichenised fungi in the order Verrucariales. The lichen-forming species, which comprise the vast majority of the family, have a wide variety of thallus forms, and include crustose (crust-like), foliose ( ...
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lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014,
Staurothele arctica
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to Californi ...
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Staurothele areolata
''Staurothele areolata'' is blackish-brown crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It is found in western North America.
Habitat and range
It is found in mountains of western North America up to , and in Sonoran Desert in Mexico and in Ar ...
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Staurothele bacilligera
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to Californ ...
Staurothele clopima
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to Californi ...
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Staurothele dendritica
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen
Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible ...
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Staurothele desquamescens
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele drummondii
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele elenkinii
''Staurothele elenkinii'' is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It was described as new to science by Ukrainian lichenologist Alfred Oxner in 1927, from the steppes of Ukraine. In 2013 it was recorded ...
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Staurothele fissa
''Staurothele fissa'' is a species of fungus belonging to the family Verrucariaceae.
It has cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the wo ...
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Staurothele frustulenta
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele geoica
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele guestphalica
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele honghensis
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to Californ ...
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Staurothele hymenogonia
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to Californ ...
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Staurothele nemorum
''Staurothele nemorum'' is a species of saxicolous lichen, saxicolous (rock-dwelling) lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. Found in the United States, it was species description, formally described as a new species in 2019 by Caleb Morse and Doug ...
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Staurothele oxneri
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to Californ ...
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Staurothele pulvinata
''Staurothele pulvinata'' is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), squamulose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. The lichen was first formally described in 1861 by Theodor Magnus Fries, as a member of genus '' Endocarpon''. The type speci ...
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Staurothele rufa
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to Californ ...
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Staurothele rugosa
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous lichen, saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is List of common names of lichen gener ...
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Staurothele rugulosa
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele rupifraga
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele septentrionalis
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...
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Staurothele succedens
''Staurothele'' is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.Field Guide to California ...