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Frosted Lichens
Physconia
Physconia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Physciaceae. The widespread genus contains about 26 species.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Grey Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia grisea
Physconia distorta
speciesPhysconia distorta

Yellow-edged Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia enteroxantha

Bottlebrush Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia detersa

Crescent Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia perisidiosa

Bottle-brush Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia leucoleiptes

Ground Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia muscigena

Pale-bellied Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia subpallida

Fancy Frost Lichen
speciesPhysconia americana

Physconia grumosa
speciesPhysconia grumosa

Physconia venusta
speciesPhysconia venusta

Physconia isidiigera
speciesPhysconia isidiigera

Physconia californica
speciesPhysconia californica

Physconia isidiomuscigena
speciesPhysconia isidiomuscigena

Physconia pulverulenta
speciesPhysconia pulverulenta

Physconia servitii
speciesPhysconia servitii

Physconia elegantula
speciesPhysconia elegantula

Physconia fallax
speciesPhysconia fallax

Physconia petraea
speciesPhysconia petraea
Physconia thorstenii
speciesPhysconia thorstenii
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 175433.