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Umbilicaria Hoffm., 1789 (a genus of lichens)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #webs
Species Umbilicaria cylindrica (L.) Delise ex Duby, 1830 (a lichen) 2  
Species Umbilicaria polyphylla (L.) Baumg., 1790 (a lichen) 2  
Species Umbilicaria polyrrhiza (L.) Fr., 1825 (a lichen) 1 1

Suggested Literature

Umbilicaria may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Umbilicaria:

thallus thallus is parasitised by ascoma Stigmidium gyrophorarum - a lichenicolous fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Foreign Hawksworth, D.L., 1983

Umbilicaria may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

References

Hawksworth, D.L., 1983 A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles

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