Caloplaca marina, the orange sea lichen, is a crustose, placodioid lichen. It has wide distribution, and can be found near the shore on rocks or walls. Calos in Greek means nice, placa in Greek is shield. Caloplaca therefore means ‘beautiful patches’.
is shield. Caloplaca therefore means ‘beautiful patches’. Synonyms are Caloplacamarina f. flavogranulata Wedd., (1875); Caloplacamarina var. flavogranulata...
crustosus, meaning "crusted". Lecanora chlarotera, which has no prothallus Caloplacamarina Lecidella elaeochroma, showing a narrow black prothallus at the edges...
Caloplaca filsonii is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It has a crust-like thallus that is uneven...
Caloplaca conranii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. The lichen has a bright yellow thallus about...
Caloplaca sol is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It is found on limestone and basic siliceous...
although it has most commonly been considered a member of the genus Caloplaca before molecular phylogenetics showed that this large genus was polyphyletic...
Verrucaria species such as V. maura are black; Xanthoria parietina and Caloplacamarina are bright yellow and orange; Lecanora atra is grey; and Ramalina siliquosa...
Kondratyuk, Ingvar Kärnefelt, and John Elix, who classified it in the genus Caloplaca. The type specimen was collected by the second author from Port Welshpool...
promoted it to distinct species status in 1932, classifying it in the genus Caloplaca. Ulf Arup and colleagues transferred the taxon to the genus Flavoplaca...
conservation status and others, such as the rare New Zealand species Caloplaca allanii, appear on regional lists. The full diversity of this family remains...
species in the genus; most were originally named as members of the genera Caloplaca or Lecanora. Flavoplaca species have a thallus that is either crust-like...
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