Lichen

habitatmech:GOLD.5e1a5d695c ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Fungi > Lichen 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	66	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

Fungi habitatmech:GOLD.a8fc5001d1

Related terms

Terms a source linked to this concept without this record claiming to be one of them, or to be narrower than one. A cross-reference, not a grounding.

lichen FOODON:03412345

Curation

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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term FOODON:03412345 'lichen' attached as a parent. Organism-identity screen (#109): grounded EXACT to FOODON:03412345 'lichen', which is a composite organism arising from algae or cyanobacteria living among fungal filaments — an organism, not a place. The screen that exists to catch exactly this reported 0 for months because it tested only NCIT and mesh ancestry and only the record's identity; widening it to UBERON:0000468 and to parent_habitats surfaced this family. The GOLD path says host-associated, so the concept is the environment the organism provides, which is the same family as the sponge, nematode and reptile term requests. The organism term is kept as an xref (#99) rather than an identity. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.5e1a5d695c)

Provenance

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