Add Italian-lichen taxon-page traits (ITALIC)

Joins per-species morphological and ecological descriptors from ITALIC, the Information System on Italian Lichens, to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name. One row per species, scraped from the ITALIC 8.0 taxon pages.

Usage

add_italic(x, cols = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x: A data.frame returned by taxify().
cols: Which columns to attach: NULL (default) or "all" attaches every column the source carries, or a character vector of names. See enrichment_cols.
verbose: Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

growth_form: Thallus growth form (crustose, foliose, fruticose, ...).
substrata: Substrata the species grows on.
photobiont: Photosynthetic partner.
reproductive_strategy: Reproductive strategy.

Details

Source: ITALIC 8.0 (Nimis; Univ. of Trieste), taxon-page descriptors, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lichens are otherwise almost absent from the bundled trait databases.

References

Nimis PL. ITALIC - The Information System on Italian Lichens, Version 8.0. University of Trieste, Dept. of Biology (https://italic.units.it), accessed 2026-07. System paper: Martellos S, Conti M, Nimis PL (2023) Aggregation of Italian Lichen Data in ITALIC 7.0. Journal of Fungi 9(5):556. doi:10.3390/jof9050556

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
taxify("Xanthoria parietina", backbone = "gbif") |>
  add_italic()
} # }