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Fringe Lichens
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Fringe Lichens

Anaptychia

Anaptychia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae. Anaptychia species are foliose (leafy) to fruticose (bushy) lichens. They have brown, thin-walled spores with a single septum, and a prosoplechtenchymatous upper cortex.

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15 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Great Ciliated Lichen

speciesAnaptychia ciliaris

Shaggy-fringe Lichen

speciesAnaptychia palmulata

Anaptychia runcinata

speciesAnaptychia runcinata

Hanging Fringe Lichen

speciesAnaptychia crinalis

Anaptychia desertorum

speciesAnaptychia desertorum

Hanging Fringe Lichen

speciesAnaptychia setifera

Whiskered Millipede Lichen

speciesAnaptychia elbursiana

Anaptychia roemerioides

speciesAnaptychia roemerioides

Anaptychia ulothricoides

speciesAnaptychia ulothricoides

Anaptychia isidiza

speciesAnaptychia isidiza

Anaptychia bryorum

speciesAnaptychia bryorum

Anaptychia adamesii

speciesAnaptychia adamesii

Anaptychia cinerascens

speciesAnaptychia cinerascens

Anaptychia congoensis

speciesAnaptychia congoensis

Anaptychia cyathiformis

speciesAnaptychia cyathiformis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 175357.