Interface to the ITALIC Database of Lichen Biodiversity R package ritalic version 0.12.0 A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by ITALIC (<https://italic.units.it>). ITALIC is a database of lichen data in Italy and bordering European countries. 'ritalic' includes functions for retrieving information about lichen scientific names, geographic distribution, ecological data, morpho-functional traits and identification keys. More information about the data is available at <https://italic.units.it/?procedure=base&t=59&c=60>. The API documentation is available at <https://italic.units.it/?procedure=api>. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.3) Imports: httr2 (>= 1.1.0), jsonlite, utils, sf, ggplot2 Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0) Matteo Conti <matt.ciao@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Matteo Conti [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4917-2639>), Luana Francesconi [aut], Alice Musina [aut], Luca Di Nuzzo [aut], Gabriele Gheza [aut], Chiara Pistocchi [aut], Juri Nascimbene [aut], Pier Luigi Nimis [aut], Stefano Martellos [aut] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ritalic/LICENSE) 2026-03-16 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ritalic doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.ritalic