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Orange Rock Posy
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Orange Rock Posy

Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca

Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca (rock-posy lichen, rockbright) is a pale yellowish-green to gray-green umbillicate foiliose lichen . It was first described in 1791 by English botanist Sir James Edward Smith as Lichen chrysoleucus; Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf transferred it to the genus Rhizoplaca in 1905.

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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 182502.