Umbilicaria polyphylla: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Umbilicariales
- Family
- Umbilicariaceae
- Genus
- Umbilicaria
- Species
- Umbilicaria polyphylla
- Scientific Name
- Umbilicaria polyphylla
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Umbilicaria polyphylla
Umbilicaria polyphylla, commonly known as petaled rock tripe, is a widely distributed species of saxicolous lichen in the family Umbilicariaceae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum as Lichen polyphyllus. German botanist Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten transferred it to the genus Umbilicaria in 1790. The lichen has a dark brown to black thallus that measures 2–6 cm (0.8–2.4 in) in diameter. The upper surface is smooth, while the lower surface is sooty black. It grows on exposed rocks, typically in arctic-alpine habitats.
In Iceland, it has the conservation status of a vulnerable species (VU).
...Umbilicaria polyphylla in languages:
- Bokmål
- glatt navlelav
- Czech
- pupkovka mnoholistá
- Dutch
- Glad navelmos
- English
- Petalled Rocktripe Lichen
- Estonian
- hõlm-kõrvsamblik
- Finnish
- liuskanapajäkälä
- German
- Vielblättrige Nabelflechte
- Lithuanian
- Daugialakštė saitakerpė
- Russian
- Умбиликария многолистная
- Swedish
- glatt navellav
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Umbilicaria aenea
- Umbilicaria africana
- Umbilicaria altaiensis
- Umbilicaria americana
- Umbilicaria angulata
- Umbilicaria antarctica
- Umbilicaria aprina
- Umbilicaria arctica
- Umbilicaria badia
- Umbilicaria cinerascens
- Umbilicaria cinereorufescens
- Umbilicaria crustulosa
- Umbilicaria cylindrica
- Umbilicaria decussata
- Umbilicaria dendrophora
- Umbilicaria deusta
- Umbilicaria durietzii
- Umbilicaria esculenta
- Umbilicaria freyi
- Umbilicaria grisea
- Umbilicaria haplocarpa
- Umbilicaria havaasii
- Umbilicaria hirsuta
- Umbilicaria hyperborea
- Umbilicaria indica
- Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii
- Umbilicaria laevis
- Umbilicaria lambii
- Umbilicaria leiocarpa
- Umbilicaria lyngei
- Umbilicaria magnussonii
- Umbilicaria mammulata
- Umbilicaria mayebarae
- Umbilicaria microphylla
- Umbilicaria microphylloides
- Umbilicaria mifafensis
- Umbilicaria muhlenbergii
- Umbilicaria murihikuana
- Umbilicaria neoproboscidea
- Umbilicaria nodulospora
- Umbilicaria nylanderiana
- Umbilicaria pertusa
- Umbilicaria phaea
- Umbilicaria polaris
- Umbilicaria polyphylla
- Umbilicaria polyrrhiza
- Umbilicaria proboscidea
- Umbilicaria propagulifera
- Umbilicaria rigida
- Umbilicaria robusta
- Umbilicaria schelpei
- Umbilicaria scholanderi
- Umbilicaria semitensis
- Umbilicaria soralifera
- Umbilicaria spodochroa
- Umbilicaria subaprina
- Umbilicaria subglabra
- Umbilicaria subpolyphylla
- Umbilicaria thamnodes
- Umbilicaria torrefacta
- Umbilicaria umbilicarioides
- Umbilicaria vellea
- Umbilicaria virginis
- Umbilicaria zahlbruckneri































































































































































