Species:
Xanthoria parietina
- Scientific name:
- Xanthoria parietina
- Arabic name:
- -
- French name:
- Parmélie des murailles, lichen encroûtant jaune
- English name:
- Common orange lichen
- Habitat:
- On rocks, cement, tiled roofs and tree bark, particularly where bird droppings fall
- Surrounding vegetation:
- Hardwood forests in broad, low-elevation valleys
- Gills / pores:
- Dimensions:
- Color(s):
- A yellowy orange colour but grey in shade
- Texture, other traits:
- Upper surface is smooth, somewhat wrinkled
- Kingdom Fungi
- Phylum Ascomycota
- Class Lecanoromycetes
- Order Teloschistales
- Family Teloschistaceae
- Genus Xanthoria
Fruiting period
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