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1001

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... is how many articles we now have in the category Category:Lichen genera, meaning there's only about 50 left to complete all of them! I'll probably make a "To-do" link to a progress page with a table containing the rest of the redlinks. Esculenta (talk) 21:17, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... 1010 ... Esculenta (talk) 02:11, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1020 ... Esculenta (talk) 23:51, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Now at 1023 genera. After compiling the remaining redlinked genera at Outline of lichens, as well as undocumented genus redlinks from several higher taxa articles (including a couple of family article updates I'm working on but have not yet published), I've made a list of the remaining redlinks here. Now I haven't yet verified that these are all lichen genera with certainty (some of them might be genera of lichenicolous fungi), but I think it's clear that the number of lichen genera has risen to about 1100 (rather than my guess of about 1050) since Lücking et al. published their lichen taxa compilation and update in 2016/2017. More and more of the remaining genera are "difficult" for whatever reason, e.g. their taxonomic validity is not universally agreed on by the main sources used for taxonomy in this project. Mostly I've been avoiding creating these in favour of the "easier" ones, but now that I have a page, I'll start adding notes about the difficult genera and where the taxonomic disagreements are. Esculenta (talk) 18:57, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1030 ... Esculenta (talk) 18:16, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1040 ... Esculenta (talk) 01:42, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1050 ... with about 75 redlinks still to investigate. Esculenta (talk) 01:07, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1060 ... Esculenta (talk) 02:46, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1070 ... Esculenta (talk) 19:54, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1080 ... Esculenta (talk) 18:04, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... 1090 ... Esculenta (talk) 17:59, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
... 1100 ... with 50 redlinks left. Esculenta (talk) 01:41, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
... 1110 ... A massive molecular phylogenetic overhaul of the Lichinomycetes was recently published (doi:10.3114/sim.2024.109.09), proposing a new family and emendations for three others, 16 new or resurrected genera, 52 new combinations, and 3 new species! ... Esculenta (talk) 19:09, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Xanthoria parietina

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I started with adding a couple of citations to this article a few days ago, and couldn't stop. It has now swelled to 9805 words and 129 citations, and is now the largest taxon article in WP:FUNGI (and probably a few other groups). This is not entirely illogical, as it appears to be one of the most studied lichens, and so "a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature" (FAC is the eventual goal) was bound to lead to a massive expansion. I've bumped its importance to high as it seems the most appropriate task-force rating for this popular lichen. Esculenta (talk) 04:10, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! That's an impressive article! I'm sorry to have been away for so long. Life is nuts at the moment and I just have absolutely no time to contribute to Wikipedia. Sometime soon, I hope to return to more regular contributions. MeegsC (talk) 22:52, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Life does that! All these lichen articles (and many more) will be here upon your return. Esculenta (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps useful for our as yet unstarted "omnicolous lichen" article?

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Abandoned vehicle coated in lichens and algae

Seen on a recent work trip to Jamaica... MeegsC (talk) 22:32, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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