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pelt lichens
Peltigera
Peltigera is a genus of approximately 100 species of foliose lichens in the family Peltigeraceae. Commonly known as the dog or pelt lichens, species of Peltigera are often terricolous (growing on soil), but can also occur on moss, trees, rocks, and many other substrates in many parts of the world.
Most species of Peltigera have the cyanobacterium Nostoc as the dominant photobiont but some have the algae Coccomyxa. The presence of both a green alga and a cyanobacterium makes some tripartite; in this case they show cephalodium growths containing the third partner, Nostoc. Because of their ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere, such lichens are influential in soil composition and generation.
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Peltigera
sectionPeltigera
Peltidea
sectionPeltidea
Polydactylon
sectionPolydactylon
Horizontales
sectionHorizontales
Chloropeltigera
sectionChloropeltigera
Phlebia
sectionPhlebia
Hydrothyriae
sectionHydrothyriae
Retifoveatae
sectionRetifoveatae
Peltigera dilacerata
speciesPeltigera dilacerata
Peltigera fuscopraetextata
speciesPeltigera fuscopraetextata
Peltigera americana
speciesPeltigera americana
Peltigera nitens
speciesPeltigera nitens
Peltigera pellucida
speciesPeltigera pellucida
Peltigera subhorizontalis
speciesPeltigera subhorizontalis
Peltigera tartarea
speciesPeltigera tartarea
Peltigera avenosa
speciesPeltigera avenosa
Peltigera praecanina
speciesPeltigera praecanina
Peltigera africana
speciesPeltigera africana
Peltigera pindarensis
speciesPeltigera pindarensis
Peltigera leptoderma
speciesPeltigera leptoderma
Peltigera mexicana
speciesPeltigera mexicana
Peltigera microdactyla
speciesPeltigera microdactyla
Peltigera szatalae
speciesPeltigera szatalae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 54294.