Elegant sunburst lichen (Xanthoria elegans)
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Category hierarchy: Fungi & Lichens | Lichens
Description: Elegant sunburst lichen growing on a rock face beside a mountain road. Tentatively identified as Xanthoria elegans.
This image was taken while the photographer was participating in the 2009 Joint Annual Meeting of these leading scientific societies: Mycological Society of America, American Bryological and Lichenological Society, American Fern Society, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and the Botanical Society of America; also known as Botany/Mycology 2009.
Capture device: Camera: Fujifilm FinePix F100fd
Original date: 20090725
Locality: Latitude: 4.044580000000000e+001; Longitude: -1.117510000000000e+002
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Nucletmycea
- Fungi (mushrooms, lichens, molds, yeasts and relatives)
- Dikarya
- Ascomycota (sac fungi)
- Lecanoromycetes
- Teloschistales
- Teloschistaceae
- Xanthoria elegans (elegant orange wall lichen)
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