{{Short description|Genus of lichen-forming fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca 45084.jpg | image_caption = ''Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca'' | taxon = Rhizoplaca | authority = Zopf (1905) | type_species = ''Rhizoplaca opaca'' | type_species_authority = (Ach.) Zopf (1905) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = | synonyms_ref = <ref name="Species Fungorum synonymy"/> | synonyms = *''Omphalodina'' {{au|M.Choisy (1929)}} }}
'''''Rhizoplaca''''' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Lecanoraceae.<ref name="CoL"/> Members of the genus are commonly called '''rimmed navel lichens'''<ref>[https://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch Results for Common Name Rimmed navel lichen, USDA]</ref> because of their umbilicate growth form and lecanorine (rimmed with thallus-like tissue)apothecia, also '''rock-posy lichen''' and '''rockbright'''.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Smith HB, Dal Grande F, Muggia L, Keuler R, Divakar PK, Grewe F, Schmitt I, Lumbsch HT, Leavitt SD | year = 2020 | title = Metagenomic data reveal diverse fungal and algal communities associated with the lichen symbiosis | journal = Symbiosis | volume = 82 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 133–147 | doi = 10.1007/s13199-020-00699-4 | doi-access = free | hdl = 11577/3440801 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref name=SSFGCL>Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0-300-19500-2}}</ref>{{rp|118}}
==Species== {{As of|2023|August}}, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 17 species of ''Rhizoplaca'':<ref name="CoL"/> * ''Rhizoplaca arbuscula'' {{au|(Rosentr.) Rosentr., St.Clair & Leavitt (2019)}} * ''Rhizoplaca callichroa'' {{au|(Zahlbr.) Y.Y.Zhang (2020)}} * ''Rhizoplaca glaucophana'' {{au|(Nyl.) W.A.Weber (1979)}} * ''Rhizoplaca haydenii'' {{au|(Tuck.) W.A.Weber (1979)}} * ''Rhizoplaca idahoensis'' {{au|Rosentr. & McCune (2007)}}<ref name="McCune & Rosentreter 2007"/> * ''Rhizoplaca melanophthalma'' {{au|(DC.) Leuckert & Poelt (1977)}} * ''Rhizoplaca nigromarginata'' {{au|(H.Magn.) S.D.Leav., Zhao Xin & Lumbsch (2015)}} * ''Rhizoplaca novomexicana'' {{au|(H.Magn.) S.D.Leav., Zhao Xin & Lumbsch (2015)}} * ''Rhizoplaca occulta'' {{au|S.D.Leav., Fern.-Mend., Lumbsch, Sohrabi & St.Clair (2013)}}<ref name="Leavitt et al. 2013"/> * ''Rhizoplaca opaca'' {{au|(Ach.) Zopf (1905)}} * ''Rhizoplaca ouimetensis'' {{au|Brinker, Evankow & Timdal (2022)}}<ref name="Brinker et al. 2022"/> * ''Rhizoplaca pachyphylla'' {{au|(H.Magn.) Y.Y.Zhang (2020)}} * ''Rhizoplaca parilis'' {{au|S.D.Leav., Fern.-Mend., Lumbsch, Sohrabi & St.Clair (2013)}}<ref name="Leavitt et al. 2013"/> * ''Rhizoplaca polymorpha'' {{au|S.D.Leav., Fern.-Mend., Lumbsch, Sohrabi & St.Clair (2013)}}<ref name="Leavitt et al. 2013"/> * ''Rhizoplaca porteri'' {{au|S.D.Leav., Fern.-Mend., Lumbsch, Sohrabi & St.Clair (2013)}}<ref name="Leavitt et al. 2013"/> * ''Rhizoplaca shushanii'' {{au|S.D.Leav., Fern.-Mend., Lumbsch, Sohrabi & St.Clair (2013)}}<ref name="Leavitt et al. 2013"/> * ''Rhizoplaca weberi'' {{au|(B.D.Ryan) S.D.Leav., Zhao Xin & Lumbsch (2015)}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Brinker et al. 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Brinker |first1=Sam |last2=Evankow |first2=Ann M. |last3=Timdal |first3=Einar |title=''Rhizoplaca ouimetensis'' sp. nov. (Lecanoraceae) from Ontario, the first sorediate species in the genus |journal=The Bryologist |volume=125 |issue=4 |year=2022 |doi=10.1639/0007-2745-125.4.513 |pages=513–523}}</ref>
<ref name="CoL">{{Catalogue of Life |id=78YX |title=''Rhizoplaca'' |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
<ref name="Species Fungorum synonymy">{{cite web |title=Synonymy. Current Name: ''Rhizoplaca'' Zopf, Justus Liebigs Annln Chem. 340: 291 (1905) |url=https://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=4712 |publisher=Species Fungorum |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
<ref name="Leavitt et al. 2013">{{cite journal |last1=Leavitt |first1=Steven |last2=Fernández-Mendoza |first2=Fernando |last3=Pérez-Ortega |first3=Sergio |last4=Sohrabi |first4=Mohammad |last5=Divakar |first5=Pradeep |last6=Lumbsch |first6=Thorsten |last7=St. Clair |first7=Larry |title=DNA barcode identification of lichen-forming fungal species in the ''Rhizoplaca melanophthalma'' species-complex (Lecanorales, Lecanoraceae), including five new species |journal=MycoKeys |issue=7 |year=2013 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.3897/mycokeys.7.4508 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name="McCune & Rosentreter 2007">{{cite book |last1=McCune |first1=B. |last2=Rosentreter |first2=R. |year=2007 |title=Biotic Soil Crust Lichens of the Columbia Basin |location=Corvallis, Oregon |publisher=Northwest Lichenologists |page=91 |isbn=978-0-9790737-0-0}}</ref>
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Category:Lecanoraceae Category:Lecanorales genera Category:Lichen genera Category:Taxa named by Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf Category:Taxa described in 1905
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