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Umbilicate lichen

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An umbilicate lichen is a lichen that is only attached to its substrate at a single point. An example is Lasallia papulosa.

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^ Lichen Vocabulary, LICHENS OF NORTH AMERICA, Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff,

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