Lichenology
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Lichenology is the branch of botany that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up by the association of a microscopical alga with a filamentous fungus.
The taxonomy of lichens was first intensively investigated by the Swedish botanist Erik Acharius (1757-1819), a student of Carolus Linnaeus who is sometimes known as the "father of lichenology". Some of his more important works on the subject, which marked the beginning of lichenology as a discipline, are:
- Lichenographiae Suecia prodromus (1798)
- Methodus lichenum (1803)
- Lichenographia universalis (1810)
- Synopsis methodica lichenum (1814)
Later lichenologists include the American botanist Edward Tuckerman and the Russian evolutionary biologist Konstantin Merezhkovsky.de:Lichenologie et:Lihhenoloogia sr:Лихенологија