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Mountain Lichens
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Mountain Lichens

Dimelaena

Dimelaena is a genus of rimose to areolate placoidioid crustose lichens.:260 It is in the family Caliciaceae. Members of the genus are commonly called mountain lichens, or moonglow lichens.:260 The genus has a widespread distribution and contains eight species.

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8 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Golden Moonglow Lichen

speciesDimelaena oreina

Dimelaena radiata

speciesDimelaena radiata

Dimelaena thysanota

speciesDimelaena thysanota

Southern Mountain Lichen

speciesDimelaena australiensis

California Mountain Lichen

speciesDimelaena californica

Dimelaena tenuis

speciesDimelaena tenuis

Weber's Mountain Lichen

speciesDimelaena weberi

Dimelaena lichenicola

speciesDimelaena lichenicola

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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 175859.