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...
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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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Lichen growth forms (redirect from Crustose placoidioid)
calicioid, cladoniform, crustose, filamentous, foliose, fruticose, gelatinous, leprose, placoidioid 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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coloration of this amphipod matches the coloration of the hermit crab and the Crustose rhodophycean algae which commonly grows in their shells. Specimens of P...
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of 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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larvae often need a biological cue to induce settlement such as specific crustose coralline algae species or microbial biofilms. High failure rates afflict...
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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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Douglas-fir dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium douglasii). Epiphytes such as crustose lichens and mosses are common sights on Douglas-firs. As it is only moderately...
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for red rocks) are colorful, unattached calcareous nodules, composed of crustose, benthic marine red algae that resemble coral. Rhodolith beds create biogenic...
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listed in List of seaweeds of South Africa. These exclude phytoplankton and crustose corallines. 669 marine species from California (US) 642 in the check-list...
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Dendrographa austrosorediata is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Roccellaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described...
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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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molecules), acidophiles (acid loving lichens), wolf lichens, crustose lichens on rock, crustose lichens on bark and wood, biotic soil crusts, aquatic lichens...
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Graphis scripta is a crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It is commonly called script lichen, secret writing lichen, or similar names, because...
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Crystals of norstictic acid, obtained by adding potassium hydroxide solution to an apothecial section of the crustose lichen Aspicilia cinerea...
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Lecanora markjohnstonii is a species of crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. Found in the southern Appalachian Mountain region of the United States...
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Krustflechten" [On the biological relationships of the thallus of some crustose lichens]. Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen (in German). 2: 123–200. From...
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on cacti Areola (lichen), a round to polygonal part of a surface of a crustose lichen Areola (entomology), a small ring of color or gap in wing margin...
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branches. areolate Having or being composed of areoles, as an areolate crustose lichen. areole 1. A space between the threads of a net, e.g. that part...
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Lecanora laxa is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. List of Lecanora species Śliwa, L.; Wetmore, C.L...
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Chemical spot tests on the crustose and saxicolous lichen Aspicilia epiglypta...
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the area of rock rubble fields and high ridges the vegetation was mainly crustose lichens. Among the 148 lichen species of the islands, 125 showed the Arctic–alpine...
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Verrucariales. The lichens have a wide variety of thallus forms, from crustose (crust-like) to foliose (bushy) and squamulose (scaly). Most of them grow...
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Sagiolechia monoseptata is a species of saxiolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Sagiolechiaceae. It occurs in northern Norway. Sagiolechia...
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Neoprotoparmelia amerisidiata is a species of corticolous (bark dwelling) and crustose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in the southeastern United States...
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Caloplaca fraserensis is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. Found in Australia, it was formally described...
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Caloplaca adnexa is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It was formally described as a new species...
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resulted in a noticeable decline in keystone reef-building species, such as crustose coralline algae and branching coral. This decline is likely due to phosphorus...
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Sporolithon ptychoides is a species of crustose red seaweed with a hard, calcareous skeleton in the family Corallinaceae. It has a widespread distribution...
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