Welcome to the lichen task force of WikiProject Fungi. We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of lichen taxa and various related subjects. New participants are most welcome; please join us by adding your name to the participant list below.

As of 18 March 2024, there are 3,903 articles within the scope of WikiProject Lichen task force, of which 3 are featured and 38 are good articles. This makes up 0.06% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.03% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.1% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 11,868 pages in the project.

• Lichen covers all lichen taxa (species, genera, families, etc.) and fungi typically studied by lichenologists, such as lichenicolous fungi. The task force also covers other articles within the spectrum of lichenology, such as lichenological terminology, notable lichenologists and chemical substances made by lichens.
• Coverage also includes all algal taxa which occur in lichens.
• How many lichen taxa are there? This question was explored by Lücking et al. in the publication "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota – Approaching one thousand genera" doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361, and a subsequent "Corrections and amendments" followup in the following issue (doi:10.1639/0007-2745-120.1.058). After these revisions, the authors concluded "the number of lichenized species is now tabulated at 19,409 and the number of fungal genera, families, and orders including lichens at 1,002, 119, and 40, respectively". As of 2018, the number of accepted lichenicolous fungi was 2319, including "2000 obligately lichenicolous species, subspecies or varieties, 257 lichenicolous lichens and 62 facultatively lichenicolous taxa". doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340
• For an overview of lichens and the many related topics, see the outline of lichens.

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Tagging and assessment[edit]

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Fungi. You may also find ((WikiProject banner shell)) useful. To each of these banners, you should add |lichen = yes, as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories, such as Category:Lichen task force articles.

Categories[edit]

Note these categories contain several subcategories.

Note the lichen task force uses the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions with lichen flora. See WP:PLANTS/Using the WGSRPD.

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Fungi.

Infobox template[edit]

Stub templates[edit]

It's helpful to tag lichen-related stubs as you find them. Here are some useful templates; feel free to add others.

• ((lichen-stub)) yields

• ((Arthoniomycetes-stub)) yields

• ((Ascomycota-stub)) yields
• ((Caliciales-stub)) yields

• ((Dothideomycetes-stub)) yields
• ((Eurotiomycetes-stub)) yields
• ((Lecanorales-stub)) yields

• ((Lecanoromycetes-stub)) yields

• ((Ostropales-stub)) yields

• ((Parmeliaceae-stub)) yields
• ((Pertusariales-stub)) yields

• ((Pleosporales stub)) yields
• ((Teloschistales-stub)) yields