The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Peltigera

a genus of lichens of the family Peltigeraceae. The leafy, usually large-lobed thallus is gray, grayish green, or grayish brown above and lighter below, with pinkish or brownish veins. Of the approximately 70 of species Peltigera, 18 are found in the forests, tundra, and meadows of the USSR. The lichens grow on moss-covered roots, rotting wood, soil, and rocks.

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Cen ydi clustiau'r ddaear, a'r enw gwyddonol arno ydi Peltigera membranacea - 'membranous dog-lichen' yn Saesneg.

Englyn i'r lleuad gorwych a dywediadau am y tywydd; BYD NATUR

saxicolous Parmelinopsis afrorevoluta (Krog & Swinscow) Elix & Hale saxicolous Peltigera polydactylon (Neck.) Hoffm muscicolous Pleurosticta acetabulum (Neck.) Elix & Lumbsch corticolous Physcia leptalea (Ach.) DC.

Lichen diversity in the Edough Peninsula, North East of Algeria/Diversidad liquenica en la peninsula Edough, noreste de Argelia

Peltigera hymenina (Ach.) Delisc (Harris 1988 as P.

LICHENS AND ALLIED FUNGI OF THE INDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE ECOBLITZ AREA, BROWN AND MONROE COUNTIES, INDIANA INCORPORATED INTO A REVISED CHECKLIST FOR THE STATE OF INDIANA

Peltigera canina (L.) Willd.--Terricolous (sandy soil).

Lichens and allied fungi of Awenda Provincial Park, Ontario: diversity and conservation status

A) Hypotrachyna minarum, B) Lobariella peltata, C) Nephroma helveticum, D) Pannaria andina, E) Parmotrema eborinum, F) Parmotrema mellissii, G) Peltigera austroamericana, H) Physcia endochrysea, I) Pseudocyphellaria clathrata (scale = 10 mm).

Nuevos registros de la liquenobiota del Santuario Historico de Machu Picchu, Peru

varions 13 Phlox hoodii 4 Plantago canescens 6 Polemonium pulcherrimum 2 Potentilla nivea 6 Rosa acicularis 3 Saxifraga reflexa 3 Saxifraga tricuspidata 2 Solidago simplex 11 Stellaria longipes 1 Townsendia hookeri 1 Anticlea elegans 1 Cladonia amaurocraea 1 Flavocetraria nivalis 1 Peltigera rufescens 2 Psora decipiens 1 Xanthoparmelia wyomingica 2 Unidentified mosses 5

High-latitude Yukon boreal-cordilleran grassland plant communities