Lecanorine lichen

A lichen has lecanorine fruiting body parts if they are shaped like a plate with a ring around them, and that ring is made of tissue similar to the main non-fruiting body part of the lichen.^[1] The name comes from the name of the lichen genus Lecanora, whose members have such apothecia.^[1] If a lichen has lecanorine apothecia, the lichen itself is sometimes described as being lecanorine.

References

^ ^a ^b Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2, page 279

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[SSFGCL-1] Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2, page 279

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