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When a new species of lichen was found in Florida in 1985, scientists didn t realize what they had Today, they need the public s help in finding more

Rare lichen unique to Florida may be extinct

Rare lichen unique to Florida discovered in museum collections, may be extinct

 E-Mail IMAGE: The only records of the newly-identified lichen Cora timucua are 32 specimens in museum collections collected in Florida between 1885 and 1985. Up to 90% of its native pine scrub. view more  Credit: Robert Lücking GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis of museum specimens. Misidentified by its original collectors, the lichen is only known from 32 specimens collected in North and Central Florida scrubland between 1885 and 1985. Now the hunt is on to find it in the wild - if it still exists. The lichen, named Cora timucua in honor of Florida s Timucua people, is critically endangered, even more so than the federally protected Florida perforate reindeer lichen, and possibly extinct. Researchers are holding out hope that

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