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Bacidia
Bacidia is a lichenized genus of fungi in the family Ramalinaceae. The genus was first described by Giuseppe De Notaris in 1846. Species in the genus are crust-like lichens with stemless apothecia; they have green algae (chloroccoid) as photobionts. Their asci have 8 colorless, cylindrical to acicular, multiseptate spores, with curved and thread-like conidia.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Surprise Lichen
speciesBacidia schweinitzii

Frosty-rimmed Dot Lichen
speciesBacidia rubella

Tricolor Bacidia
speciesBacidia suffusa

Bacidia laurocerasi
speciesBacidia laurocerasi
Bacidia arceutina
speciesBacidia arceutina

Bacidia sorediata
speciesBacidia sorediata

Grainy Limerock Bacidia
speciesBacidia granosa

Bacidia fraxinea
speciesBacidia fraxinea

Bacidia rosella
speciesBacidia rosella

Bacidia polychroa
speciesBacidia polychroa

Bacidia wellingtonii
speciesBacidia wellingtonii

Violet-crowned Bacidia
speciesBacidia purpurans

Ekman's Bacidia
speciesBacidia ekmaniana

Bacidia viridifarinosa
speciesBacidia viridifarinosa

Bacidia heterochroa
speciesBacidia heterochroa

Bacidia macrospora
speciesBacidia macrospora

Bacidia lichen
speciesBacidia diffracta

Bacidia idahoensis
speciesBacidia idahoensis

Bacidia glomerulosa
speciesBacidia glomerulosa

Bacidia leucocarpa
speciesBacidia leucocarpa
Bacidia hostheleoides
speciesBacidia hostheleoides

Bacidia helicospora
speciesBacidia helicospora

Bacidia phyllopsoropsis
speciesBacidia phyllopsoropsis
Bacidia biatorina
speciesBacidia biatorina

Bacidia subcerina
speciesBacidia subcerina

Bacidia leucothalamia
speciesBacidia leucothalamia
Bacidia campalea
speciesBacidia campalea
Bacidia plesia
speciesBacidia plesia

Bacidia minutissima
speciesBacidia minutissima
Bacidia coruscans
speciesBacidia coruscans

Bacidia kekesiana
speciesBacidia kekesiana

Bacidia lobarica
speciesBacidia lobarica
Bacidia luteola
speciesBacidia luteola
Bacidia gigantensis
speciesBacidia gigantensis
Bacidia hostheliodes
speciesBacidia hostheliodes

Bacidia squamulosula
speciesBacidia squamulosula

Bacidia crenulata
speciesBacidia crenulata
Bacidia allotropa
speciesBacidia allotropa
Bacidia herbarum
speciesBacidia herbarum
Bacidia absistens
speciesBacidia absistens
Bacidia caesiovirens
speciesBacidia caesiovirens
Bacidia aggregatula
speciesBacidia aggregatula
Bacidia brouardii
speciesBacidia brouardii
Bacidia flavens
speciesBacidia flavens
Bacidia insularis
speciesBacidia insularis
Bacidia ioessa
speciesBacidia ioessa
Bacidia jacobi
speciesBacidia jacobi
Bacidia mutabilis
speciesBacidia mutabilis
Bacidia ravenelii
speciesBacidia ravenelii
Bacidia reagens
speciesBacidia reagens
Bacidia rubidofusca
speciesBacidia rubidofusca
Bacidia salmonea
speciesBacidia salmonea
Bacidia saxicola
speciesBacidia saxicola
Bacidia cargillensis
speciesBacidia cargillensis
Bacidia stenospora
speciesBacidia stenospora
Bacidia albozonata
speciesBacidia albozonata
Bacidia albidoprasina
speciesBacidia albidoprasina
Bacidia albicerata
speciesBacidia albicerata
Bacidia thalassina
speciesBacidia thalassina
Bacidia anceps
speciesBacidia anceps
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 175969.