Halecania: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Leprocaulales
- Family
- Leprocaulaceae
- Genus
- Halecania
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Halecania
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Halecania
Halecania is a genus of fungi in the family Leprocaulaceae. It has 24 species. These lichens form inconspicuous, crust-like films that spread over rock or other surfaces, with colours ranging from chalky white through bluish-grey to brownish-grey and textures that can be cracked like dried mud, granular, or covered in tiny warts. They reproduce through small, disc-shaped fruiting bodies that contain eight colourless ascospores divided by a single cross-wall, with the spore envelope swelling conspicuously when treated with certain chemicals—a key identifying feature.
...Halecania in languages:
- Dutch
- Porceleinkorst
- Lithuanian
- Halekanija
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