Xanthoria


Xanthoria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. Common names include orange lichen, orange wall lichen, and sunburst lichen. They can be identified by their characteristic squamulose morphology with distinctive "fairy cups".

Species

, Species Fungorum accepts 19 species of Xanthoria.
The taxa Xanthoria coomae and Xanthoria polessica were determined to be the same species as X. parietina in a 2020 publication. The taxon once known as Xanthoria elegans is now Rusavskia elegans, the type species of genus Rusavskia.