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Xanthoria

  • Family name: Teloschistaceae
  • Common name: orange wall lichen
  • Growth form: Lichen
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map: Xanthoria

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  1. Xanthoria    , orange wall lichen
  2. Xanthoria candelaria, example species
    1999
    Image author: Hörður Kristinsson ©
    Website: Flora of Iceland
    Source of original image

  1. Xanthoria    , orange wall lichen
  2. Xanthoria candelaria, example species
    Norway, Oppland, Dovre - 5/24/04
    Image author: Einar Timdal ©
    Website: Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Source of original image

  1. Xanthoria    , orange wall lichen
  2. Xanthoria elegans, example species
    Norway, Buskerud, Sigdal - 8/31/03
    Image author: Einar Timdal ©
    Website: Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Source of original image

  1. Xanthoria    , orange wall lichen
  2. Xanthoria sorediata, example species
    Norway, Oslo - 4/17/05
    Image author: Einar Timdal ©
    Website: Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Source of original image

  1. Xanthoria    , orange wall lichen
  2. The 'elegant sunburst lichen', Xanthoria elegans, on rock. The Haisla and Hanaksiala in British Columbia used this lichen as a pigment for face paint. It is easy to confuse this lichen (common in western North America) with some of the lobate species of Caloplaca, especially Caloplaca ignea. A quick test is to gently peel up the edge of a lobe; if it can be removed from the rock without falling apart, it's the Xanthoria.
    Yukon Territory, Canada
    Image author: Stephen & Sylvia Sharnoff ©
    Website: Lichens of North America
    Source of original image

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