Ephebe lanata
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| Ephebe lanata | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lichinomycetes |
| Order: | Lichinales |
| Family: | Porocyphaceae |
| Genus: | Ephebe |
| Species: | E. lanata |
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| Ephebe lanata | |
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Ephebe lanata is a species of filamentous lichen in the family Lichinaceae, and the type species of the genus Ephebe. The lichen was first described as a new species by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum, as Lichen lanatus.[2] Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio transferred it to Ephebe in 1888.[3] In North America, it is known colloquially as the "rockshag lichen".[4]
