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Parmelia sulcata (shield lichen)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Net-marked parmelia (Parmelia sulcata), or Shield lichen, is a foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It is very tolerant of pollution and has a cosmopolitan distribution, making it one of the most common lichens. It harbours a unicellular Trebouxia green algal symbiont.
View Wikipedia Record: Parmelia sulcata

Attributes

Structure [1]  Lichen

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Consumers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Lichenoconium lecanorae (lecanora lichenoconium lichen)[2]
Parasitized by 
Cornutispora lichenicola[2]
Homostegia piggotii[2]
Lichenoconium lecanorae (lecanora lichenoconium lichen)[2]
Marchandiomyces corallinus[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0