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Lichens of Africa
Lichens of Africa are the lichenised fungi occurring on the African continent and adjacent islands, best known from South Africa's 1750 recorded taxa and the Namib's fog-dependent lichens.
Lichens of Antarctica
Lichens of Antarctica are symbiotic organisms combining a fungus with an algal or cyanobacterial partner, and the most species-rich component of Antarctic vegetation, with over 400 described species, about half endemic.
Lichens of Australia and New Zealand
The lichens of Australia and New Zealand are the lichenised fungi of the Australasian realm, including over 4000 Australian taxa and an estimated 1600 or more in New Zealand.
Lichens of Europe
The lichens of Europe form a diverse flora spanning Mediterranean to arctic climates, with 21.6% of assessed species endemic to Europe and 13% threatened in the EU.
Lichens of Hawaii
The lichens of Hawaii are the lichenized fungi of the Hawaiian Islands, with roughly 890 documented species, the largest known lichen flora of any Pacific island group.
Lichens of India
Lichens of India are the symbiotic fungi-algae organisms growing on India's trees, rocks, and soils, over 2,900 known species, richest in the Eastern Himalaya and Western Ghats.
Lichens of North America
The lichens of North America are the lichenized fungi of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with 6,097 accepted species in the continental US and Canada as of 2026.
Lichens of South America
Lichens of South America are the symbiotic lichens found across the continent, from Amazonia to Patagonia; Brazil's national checklist of 4,828 taxa is a country-level world record.
Lichens of the Galápagos Islands
The lichens of the Galápagos Islands are a flora of about 633 accepted taxa, including 45 endemics, assembled on volcanic islands only 35,000 to 4 million years old.
Lichens of the Pacific islands
Lichens of the Pacific islands are the lichenised fungi recorded across Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with 2422 accepted taxa in 291 genera listed by 2008.
Lichess
Lichess (lichess.org) is a free, open-source, donation-funded online chess server founded in 2010 by Thibault Duplessis, written in Scala, run as a French nonprofit, with no ads or paid features, over five million daily games, and a CC0 game database.
Lichfield
Lichfield is a small cathedral city in Staffordshire, England, founded around Bishop Chad's 669 bishopric. Known for its three-spired cathedral, 1553 county charter, Samuel Johnson links, and role as a Birmingham commuter city.
Lichfield Gospels
The Lichfield Gospels, also called the St Chad Gospels or St Teilo Gospels, is an Insular Latin gospel-book of about 730, kept at Lichfield Cathedral and bearing the oldest surviving Old Welsh writing.
Lichi Medical
Lichi Medical (励齿医疗), or Shanghai Lichi Medical Technology, is a Chinese dental supply-chain company in Shanghai offering one-stop B2B procurement of dental devices and consumables to private clinics.
Lichinga
Lichinga, formerly Vila Cabral (1932–1976), is the capital of Niassa Province in northern Mozambique, lying at 1,358 m on a plateau about 50 km from Lake Niassa.
Lichong Decoction
理冲汤 (Lichong Decoction), a nine-herb formula by Zhang Xichun in Yixue Zhongzhong Canxilu, combines qi tonics with blood-moving herbs for amenorrhea, postpartum masses, and now studied in fibroids, adenomyosis, and ovarian cancer.
Lichtenberg figure
The Lichtenberg figure, also called a beam tree or lightning flower, is a branching electrical discharge pattern named for Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who discovered it in 1777.
Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein (standard spelling Liechtenstein), Principality of Liechtenstein: alpine microstate between Switzerland and Austria, 160 km2, fourth smallest in Europe, founded 1719, Swiss franc currency, capital Vaduz.
Lichtenstein repair
The Lichtenstein repair is an open, tension-free operation for inguinal hernia that places polypropylene mesh over the inguinal canal floor; it is the most commonly used repair.
Lichtenstein technique
The Lichtenstein technique is an open inguinal hernia repair in which flat synthetic mesh reinforces the groin floor without tension, described by Irving Lichtenstein in 1989.
Lichtensteinia (synonym of Lichtensia)
Lichtensteinia is a name proposed as a junior synonym of Lichtensia Signoret, 1873, a genus of about 13 soft-scale insect species in the family Coccidae; the synonymy is not recorded by ScaleNet or ITIS.
LICIACube
LICIACube (Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids) is an Italian Space Agency CubeSat that flew past the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022 and photographed NASA's DART impact.
Licinius
Licinius (Valerius Licinianus Licinius, c.265-325) was Roman emperor 308-324, Galerius' appointee, husband of Constantine's sister Constantia, co-author of the Edict of Milan, defeated and executed by Constantine after the wars of 314/316 and 324.
Licious
Licious is a Bengaluru-based online meat and seafood delivery platform founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, which became a unicorn in 2021.
Lick / Liquid Stranger
Liquid Stranger is the stage name of Martin Stääf, a Swedish-born electronic producer and DJ based in the United States who founded the WAKAAN label in 2015.
Lick granuloma
Lick granuloma (acral lick dermatitis) is a chronic self-inflicted skin lesion in dogs from persistent licking, usually on a lower limb, driven by allergies, pain, infection, or anxiety, with secondary deep bacterial infection common.
Lick It Up
Lick It Up is Kiss's eleventh studio album, released September 18, 1983, the band's first without makeup, unveiled on MTV the same day. Produced by Michael James Jackson, Simmons, and Stanley; gold in 1983, platinum in 1990.
Lick Observatory
Lick Observatory is a University of California astronomical observatory on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, founded in 1888 and the world's first permanently staffed mountain-top observatory.
Lickfold
Lickfold, a hamlet in Parham parish, Horsham, West Sussex, is the site of a scheduled Romano-British bath house (about AD 125 to after AD 364) with hypocausts, pottery kilns, and metalworking remains near Roman roads.
Licking
Licking: repeated tongue contact used by animals for grooming, drinking, feeding, and social signaling; includes allogrooming in ungulates, dog lip-licking stress signals, and lickometer-based neuroscience measurement.