Date of issue: 5 October 2021
Designer: Jason Watts, Australia Post Design Studio
Printer: RA Printing

Part of a series of 4 'Antarctic Territory Lichen' stamps.

Plant: Buellia frigida

Family: PHYSCIACEAE

Common-name: none

Lichens are complex organisms made up of fungi and one or more algae species.
They are named according to the fungal component.
This is a very tough lichen and the most abundant in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
It relies on snow-melt for growth.