Caloplaca
| Caloplaca | |
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| The species C. marina | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Caloplaca Th.Fr., 1871 |
| Type species | |
| Caloplaca cerina (Ehrh. ex Hedw.) Th. Fr. | |
Caloplaca is a lichen genus,[1] composed of a number of distinct species. The distribution of this lichen genus is worldwide, extending from Antarctica[2] to the high Arctic.[3] It includes a portion of northern North America and the Russian High Arctic. There are about thirty species of Caloplaca in the flora of the British Isles.[4] An example species in this genus is Caloplaca saxicola, a lichen with worldwide distribution including the Antarctic continent, Europe and northern North America including the northern reaches of the Canadian boreal forests.
A new species of Caloplaca, C. obamae, the first species to be named in honor of Barack Obama, was discovered in 2007 on Santa Rosa Island in California and published in March 2009.[5]
Gallery
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Spore from an acus in an apothecium of C. feracissima; photographed through a compound microscope, ×1000
References
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- ↑ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen; Laurie-Bourque (2001). Lichens of North America (1st ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300082494.
- ↑ Olech, M. (1993). "Four new species of Caloplaca from Antarctica". The Lichenologist 25 (3): 261–269. doi:10.1006/lich.1993.1030.
- ↑ Søchting, U.; Olech‡, M. (2007). "The Lichen Genus Caloplaca in Polar Regions". The Lichenologist 27 (6): 463. doi:10.1017/S0024282995000594.
- ↑ Dobson, F.S. (2000). Lichens, an illustrated guide to the British and Irish species (4th ed.). Slough, England: Richmond. ISBN 9780855463151.
- ↑ "New Species Of Lichen Named After President Barack Obama". ScienceDaily. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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