powder lichen
One illustrated example of powder lichen.
representative Lepraria species (mellav / powder lichen)
All languages
- English
- powder lichen
- Norwegian
- mellav
- Japanese
- 粉末地衣類 — ふんまつちいるい — fummatsuchiirui
- Korean
- 가루 이끼 — garu ikki
- Spanish
- liquen en polvo
- French
- lichen poudré
- German
- Pulverflechte
Beta edition. Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.
Reference sources
- British Lichen Society — Lepraria has a diffuse crustose thallus composed mainly of powdery or granular uncorticated material and lacks fruiting bodies
- British Lichen Society — leprose lichens are diffuse powdery masses of fungal hyphae and algal cells with little or no structure
- Det Norske Akademis ordbok — mellav denotes the genus Lepraria