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Get lichen data from ITALIC
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- lichen taxon name alignment · taxon data retrieval · taxa search by distribution · taxa search by ecology · taxa search by traits · identification key creation
- Coverage docs-verified
- Italy and bordering countries
- Update frequency docs-verified
- continuous updates to nomenclatural and distributional data; no fixed schedule stated
- Formats docs-verified
- R package · MCP stdio
- Access docs-verified
- Local install of R package (CRAN or GitHub); licence per entry metadata: Other
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Align field-recorded lichen names to ITALIC nomenclature before entering ecological survey data (Italian projects) · Retrieve taxon distribution and ecology records for baseline reports on Italian sites · Generate lichen identification keys for field survey teams working in Italy
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · botanists and lichenologists · environmental consultants working in Italy
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Italy-focused: lichen data cover Italy and bordering countries, not the UK · Requires R and Rscript installed on the user's machine, since the MCP server runs locally · Most data derived from the Nimis (2016) checklist; nomenclature and distributions still being updated · Citation not yet available · MCP tool names are not documented in the README and the entry's tools list is empty
- Licence
- Other
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- 3
- Last commit
- 13/10/2026
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Auto-extracted, unverified fields: tools, install, auth. Check upstream documentation.
Provenance & evidence
Daily discovery 2026-10-15: GitHub search; verified via GitHub API. Tools/install/auth auto-extracted from README.
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · daily-2026-10-15 (github-search)