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Iris Cohen schreef
I know we sometimes discuss lichens here. Not that I would tell anyone not
to. They are a symbiotic combination of a fungus and an alga. Are they still
considered plants? Is lichenology still a branch of botany? What about
mycology?
Iris,

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The animals feeding on them regard them as plants.
The ICBN does do too.
Governments that deal with budgets mostly regard them as plants too (ie no
separate budget or often any budget at all)?

Mycology the same minus the animals.
PvR