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    Rhizocarpon is a genus of crustose, saxicolous (or sometimes lichenicolous), lecideoid lichens in the family Rhizocarpaceae. The genus is common in arctic-alpine...
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    Rhizocarpon geographicum (the map lichen) is a species of lichen, which grows on rocks in mountainous areas of low air pollution. Each lichen is a flat...
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    Rhizocarpon viridiatrum is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It was first described by Franz Xaver...
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  • Rhizocarpon haidense is a species of crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. Found in Canada, it was described as a new species in 2020 by lichenologists...
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    Rhizocarpon macrosporum (lemon map lichen) is a smooth, bright yellow crustose aereolate lichen found in the Sonoran Desert of California and Arizona...
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    Rhizocarpon pusillum is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It is a lichenicolous lichen, meaning it...
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    Rhizocarpon petraeum is a species of lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It contains stictic acid. It was first described as Lichen petraeus in 1787...
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  • Rhizocarpon exiguum is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. This Tasmanian species is characterised...
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  • Rhizocarpon diploschistinum is an uncommon species of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It parasitises the...
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  • Rhizocarpon torquatum is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. This species is recognised by its pale...
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  • Rhizocarpon furax is a species of lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It is found in Europe, where it has a scattered distribution. Rhizocarpon furax...
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  • Rhizocarpon timdalii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. Identified and described as a new species...
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    Rhizocarpon grande is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It occurs in Europe, North America, and South...
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    commonly used for lichenometry are those of the genera Rhizocarpon (e.g. the species Rhizocarpon geographicum) and Xanthoria. The measured growth rates...
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    specimen of Rhizocarpon geographicum on East Baffin Island has an estimated age of 9500 years. Thalli of Rhizocarpon geographicum and Rhizocarpon eupetraeoides/inarense...
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    lichenicolous fungus species Muellerella erratica, Muellerella pygmaea and Rhizocarpon furax. List of Lecidea species "Lecidea lapicida". Global Biodiversity...
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    Ferdinand von Mueller. Based on dating of a yellow-green lichen of the Rhizocarpon subgenus, Mueller Glacier is considered to have had a Little Ice Age...
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    species of the genus Rhizocarpon but can also associate with other genera. Muellerella ventosicola has been reported growing on Rhizocarpon geographicum in...
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    (form. Lecidea siplei) Physcia caesia Pseudephebe minuscula Rhizocarpon geographicum Rhizocarpon superficial Rhizoplaca melanophthalma Umbilicaria aprina...
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    of water and the cold vacuum of outer space. In addition, the lichens Rhizocarpon geographicum and Xanthoria elegans have been found to survive in an environment...
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  • assentiens but has since been reported from King George Island where it uses Rhizocarpon geographicum as a host. Carbonea austroshetlandica has dispersed to aggregated...
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  • shaded rocks. Associated lichen species include Ionaspis lacustris, Rhizocarpon lavatum, Porpidia hydrophila, Sporodictyon cruentum, and Trapelia coarctata...
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    Age in New Zealand. Based on dating of a yellow-green lichen of the Rhizocarpon subgenus, the Mueller Glacier, on the eastern flank of the Southern Alps...
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    to the vacuum and radiation of outer space include the lichen fungi Rhizocarpon geographicum and Rusavskia elegans, the bacterium Bacillus safensis,...
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  • tolerance of symbiotic Trebouxia sp. in the space-tested lichen species Rhizocarpon geographicum and Circinaria gyrosa: role of the hydration state and cortex/screening...
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    Lecidea grisella Lecidea lapicida Lecidea obluridata Tephromela atra Rhizocarpon geographicum Rusavskia elegans "Muellerella pygmaea (Körb.) D. Hawksw"...
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    alboatra (Hoffm.) Chevall. (1826) Abacina alboatra (Hoffm.) Norman (1852) Rhizocarpon alboatrum (Hoffm.) Anzi (1860) Buellia alboatra (Hoffm.) Th.Fr. (1861)...
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  • Another lichen with a similar morphology to Burrowsia cataractae is Rhizocarpon lavatum, which also occurs in similar damp habitats in the Northern Hemisphere...
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  • Vindlav Porina chlorotica, Skugg-vårtlav Pyrenula nitida, Bok-vårtlav Rhizocarpon geographicum, Map lichen, Kartlav Sphaerophorus globosus, Korall-lav...
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    black truffle (Tuber melanosporum), Sarcoscypha austriaca, Penicillium, Rhizocarpon, fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), and Microsporum canis Scientific...
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