'rich lineage' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You may use it to describe something having a long and distinguished history. For example, "The royal family had a rich lineage that could be traced back hundreds of years."
The title, after all, has a rich lineage.
This weekend, I have another act to add to that rich lineage of extremely amusing non-comedians.
With this urge to accumulate objects, I have joined the ranks of collectors, a group with a rich lineage.
She curled in and peeled open, arms belling out as if supported by this rich lineage.
Axel Boman joins the rich lineage of Swedes determined to make everything Balearic, even when they're facing down a glacial fjord, producing exotica-tinged disco and house.
Space Invaders begat Galaxian and many others, spawning the rich lineage of the space shoot-em'-up; Tetris gave us a new era of block-sorting puzzlers; Minecraft borrowed elements from earlier building games like Infiniminer and Dwarf Fortress.
After removal of the AT rich lineages from the analysis, Carsonella ruddii clusters with the genus Pseudomonas [ 42].
Ever the storyteller, Q has insinuated that the Soros clan overthrew a fourth, unnamed powerful family to take their spot as the third-richest lineage on the planet and has left it up to the bakers to figure out just which famous family that might be.
Moreover, transfer RNA gene deletion facilitated by parasitism combined with an unusually high rate of intron loss from remaining functional plastid genes created a unique circumstance on the lineage leading to Cuscuta subgenus Grammica that allowed elimination of matK in the most species-rich lineage of Cuscuta.
To start with, it is known that within the family Phyllostomidae, specialized frugivory (i.e. complete or strong dependence on fruits for a living) seems to have evolved only once in the species-rich lineage comprising the subfamilies Carolliinae, Rinophyllinae, and Stenodermatinae [16].
Within an otherwise pantropic clade [ 30] Hypericum is a cold-adapted but species-rich lineage.
