Polycauliona candelaria
Species of lichen-forming fungus
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Polycauliona candelaria is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.[3] It was one of the first lichens formally described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. Since then, the taxon has acquired a long and extensive synonymy.[2] It was finally transferred to the genus Polycauliona by Ulf Arup and colleagues in 2013, as part of a molecular phylogenetics-based restructuring of the family Teloschistaceae.[4] In North America, one vernacular name is shrubby sunburst lichen.[5]
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| Polycauliona candelaria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Polycauliona |
| Species: | P. candelaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
