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Collema tenax
Collema tenax, currently treated in some sources as Enchylium tenax, is a gelatinous lichen containing a cyanobacterial photobiont. Its dark, tightly attached thallus can become swollen and flexible when wet, a characteristic shared by jelly lichens, and it commonly grows on exposed soil or rock, in...
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The top alternative to Collema tenax in 2026 is Parmotrema perlatum with a score of 8.8/10, followed by Lobaria scrobiculata (8.7) and Degelia plumbea (8.6).
Parmotrema perlatum
Parmotrema perlatum is a large foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae, commonly known as ruffle lichen. Its gray-gree...
Lobaria scrobiculata
Lobaria scrobiculata is a large foliose lichen in the family Lobariaceae. Its blue-gray to green thallus has broad lobes...
Degelia plumbea
Degelia plumbea is a large foliose cyanolichen distinguished by its lead-gray, brain-like ridged lobes, serving as a str...
Pseudocyphellaria aurata
Pseudocyphellaria aurata is a foliose lichen with a leafy thallus and a cyanobacterial photobiont. It is recognized by y...
Crocodia aurata
Crocodia aurata is a large foliose lichen in the family Lobariaceae, commonly known as golden lung lichen. Its thallus h...
Hypogymnia physodes
Hypogymnia physodes is a foliose lichen commonly called the tube lichen or puffed lichen. Its gray to gray-green thallus...
Peltigera aphthosa
Peltigera aphthosa is a large terrestrial foliose lichen with broad lobes and wart-like cephalodia on the upper surface....
Flavoparmelia caperata
Flavoparmelia caperata, commonly called the green shield lichen, is a foliose lichen with broad, rounded lobes and a yel...
Pseudocyphellaria intricata
Pseudocyphellaria intricata is a foliose lichen in a group that commonly forms broad, leafy lobes and houses cyanobacter...
Parmelia sulcata
Parmelia sulcata is a foliose lichen commonly known as the hammered shield lichen. It forms grey to grey-green lobes wit...
Nephroma arcticum
Nephroma arcticum, known as Arctic kidney lichen, is a foliose lichen of Arctic and subarctic tundra, heath, and alpine...
Solorina crocea
Solorina crocea is a foliose lichen with a conspicuously orange lower surface. It commonly grows on exposed, acidic soil...
Sticta weigelii
Sticta weigelii is a foliose cyanolichen in the genus Sticta, a group recognized for leafy thalli and small pores or cyp...
Leptogium cyanescens
Leptogium cyanescens is a foliose jelly lichen with bluish-gray, wrinkled lobes. Its thallus becomes gelatinous when wet...
Peltigera membranacea
Peltigera membranacea is a foliose lichen that usually grows on soil, moss, humus, and other moist ground substrates in...
Leptogium lichenoides
Leptogium lichenoides is a foliose jelly lichen recognized by its blue-gray, minutely ridged lobes and gelatinous textur...
Collema flaccidum
Collema flaccidum is a foliose jelly lichen containing a cyanobacterial partner. Its dark olive-brown lobes are broad, s...
Leptogium gelatinosum
Leptogium gelatinosum is a foliose jelly lichen with a cyanobacterial photosynthetic partner. Its lobes are smooth and d...
Collema crispum
Collema crispum is a gelatinous, foliose lichen now treated in some taxonomic sources under the name Blennothallia crisp...
Lempholemma polyanthes
Lempholemma polyanthes is a small gelatinous cyanolichen whose dark green to black thallus becomes more conspicuous and...
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