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Crustose lichens are
lichens that form a
crust which strongly adheres to the
substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.),
making separation from the substrate...
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Crustose is a
habit of some
types of
algae and
lichens in
which the
organism grows tightly appressed to a substrate,
forming a
biological layer. Crustose...
- calicioid, cladoniform,
crustose, filamentous, foliose, fruticose, gelatinous, leprose,
placodioid and squamulose. Traditionally,
crustose (flat),
foliose (leafy)...
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adhering tightly to a
surface (substrate) like a
thick coat of
paint (
crustose); have a powder-like
appearance (leprose); or
other growth forms. A macrolichen...
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secondary thallus. A
lichen with a two-fold
growth form that
includes both a
crustose, squamulose, or
foliose form and a
fruticose form; the
thallus differentiates...
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Minium is a
genus of
thalloid algae. The
thalli take a
crustose form. The only
species currently recognised is
Minium parvum. Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M....
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leaves (foliose lichens);
others cover the
substrate like a
crust (
crustose lichens) (illustration, right),
others such as the
genus Ramalina adopt...
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either leaf-like (foliose),
bushy or shrub-like (fruticose), or crust-like (
crustose).
These lichens typically partner with a
photosynthetic companion (a photobiont)...
- molecules),
acidophiles (acid
loving lichens), wolf lichens,
crustose lichens on rock,
crustose lichens on bark and wood,
biotic soil crusts,
aquatic lichens...
- Verrucariales. The
lichens have a wide
variety of
thallus forms, from
crustose (crust-like) to
foliose (bushy) and
squamulose (scaly). Most of them grow...
