Definition of Squamulose. Meaning of Squamulose. Synonyms of Squamulose

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Definition of Squamulose

Squamulose
Squamulose Squam"u*lose` (?; 277), a. Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Meaning of Squamulose from wikipedia

- A squamulose lichen is a lichen that is composed of small, often overlapping "scales" called squamules. If they are raised from the substrate and appear...
- filamentous, foliose, fruticose, gelatinous, leprose, placoidioid and squamulose. Traditionally, crustose (flat), foliose (leafy) and fruticose (shrubby)...
- adhering tightly to a surface (substrate) like a thick coat of paint squamuloseformed of small leaf-like scales crustose below but free at the tips...
- variety of thallus forms, from crustose (crust-like) to foliose (bushy) and squamulose (scaly). Most of them grow on land, some in freshwater and a few in the...
- lichens have different upper and lower cortices. Crustose, placodioid, and squamulose lichens have an upper cortex but no lower cortex, and leprose lichens...
- nitidella is squamulose, evanescent, and crenate-lobed. The podetia are more or less cylindrical, rough, corticate or ecorticate, esorediate, squamulose, and...
- honey-like, fishy). The pileus is radially rimose ("Rimosae") or can be squamulose to squarrose ("Cervicolores"). The lamella has no pleurocystidia, but...
- Upretia squamulosa is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), squamulose (scaly) lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It was identified as a new species...
- the single species Xanthopsorella texana, a saxicolous (rock-dwelling), squamulose lichen found in the Southern United States and Mexico. The American lichenologist...
- morpho-type has many more species, and is generally described as a group of squamulose (grow from squamules), cup-bearing lichens. The Cladina morpho-types are...