Teloschistaceae

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Red firedot lichen Tomnashia luteominia is a crustose rock-dwelling lichen widely found along North America’s west coast with two distinct varieties.

Calogaya decipiens is a saxicolous crustose lichen in Teloschistaceae, described in 1867 and reclassified to Flavoplaca in 2013.

Calogaya pusilla is a small, rosette-shaped yellow-orange lichen with distinct morphological and chemical identifying features.

Athallia holocarpa is a lichenised fungus in the Teloschistaceae family, formally reclassified to its current genus in 2013.

Athallia pyracea is a common crustose nitrophilous epiphytic lichen found in temperate Northern Hemisphere regions.

Dufourea ligulata is a rock-dwelling foliose lichen found on coastal rocks in Australasia.

Xanthocarpia feracissima, the sidewalk firedot lichen, is a common crustose saxicolous lichen found in eastern North America.

Squamulea subsoluta is a rock-dwelling squamulose lichen in the Teloschistaceae family, reclassified to its current name in 2013.

Xanthoria elegans is a widespread orange foliose lichen that can survive extreme environments, including outer space conditions.

Rusavskia sorediata is a widely distributed Northern Hemisphere rock-dwelling crustose lichen commonly called sugared sunburst lichen.

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Gold-eye lichen Niorma chrysophthalma is a fruticose lichen with a cosmopolitan distribution, that produces antiviral parietin.

Golden hair-lichen is a widespread saffron-pigmented fruticose lichen that grows on rocks and tree branches.

Teloschistes exilis is a bark-dwelling fruticose lichen from the Americas in the family Teloschistaceae.

Teloschistes velifer is a lichen with a characteristic shrubby upright thallus and defined reproductive structural traits.

Teloschistes capensis is an upright fruticose orange to yellowish shrubby lichen with characteristic apothecia and spores.