• An endolithic lichen is a crustose lichen that grows inside solid rock, growing between the grains, with only the fruiting bodies exposed to the air. Although...
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    inside solid rock, growing between the grains (endolithic). There are about 20,000 known species. Some lichens have lost the ability to reproduce sexually...
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    An endolith or endolithic is an organism (archaeon, bacterium, fungus, lichen, algae or amoeba) that is able to acquire the necessary resources for growth...
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    powdery lichen Lecidea atrobrunnea, an endolithic lichen Acarospora fuscata, an epilithic lichen Amandinea punctata, an endophloedic lichen Psora decipiens...
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    Saxicolous lichen – on stone. Endolithic lichen – within stone. Terricolous lichen – on soil. Vagrant lichen – loose, on no substrate. List of lichens of Madagascar...
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    a lichen without producing any visible symptoms of disease; these fungi are transmitted horizontally. endolith Also endolithic. A crustose lichen that...
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    the class Dothideomycetes, and Lecidea hassei, a lichen that grows inside solid rock (endolithic lichen), were both named in his honor. He principally did...
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  • Antarctolichenia (category Lichen genera)
    the pore spaces of rocks, particularly sandstone. It is found in endolithic lichen-dominated communities, which represent the main form of microbial...
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  • Lecidea hassei (category Lichen species)
    Lecidea hassei (Hasse's lecidea lichen) is an endolithic lichen that appears as tiny black, gray rimmed, plate-like or crinkled discs between crystals...
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    Lecidea laboriosa (category Lichen species)
    Lecidea laboriosa is a species of lichen that grows inside solid rock (endolithic), with only the small black disc-like fruiting bodies (apothecia) visible...
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  • sequence of repetitions of induration followed by lichen colonization. Endolithic lichens inhabit areas between grains of rock, chemically and physically weathering...
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    water, where rock meets air, by repeated colonization of the rock by endolithic lichens. Some Archean rock formations show macroscopic similarity to modern...
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    Pyrenodesmia variabilis is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. Characteristics of the species include its...
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    Bagliettoa marmorea (category Lichen species)
    species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It is endolithic on calcareous rocks, meaning it grows under and...
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  • Negev desert are noted for eating lichens growing under the surface limestone rocks and slabs (endolithic lichens). The grazing activity of these ecosystem...
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  • Patricia A; Smith, BErnard J (2012). "Microscale biopitting by the endolithic lichen Verrucaria baldensis and its proposed role in mesoscale solution basin...
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    Negev desert are noted for eating lichens growing under the surface limestone rocks and slabs (endolithic lichens). They disrupt and eat the limestone...
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    There are different types of Crustose lichens, including endolithic, endophloidic and leprose. Endolithic lichens are immersed in the outer layer of rocks...
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    Lecidea (redirect from Lecidea lichen)
    usually (or always) found growing on (saxicolous) or in (endolithic) rock.: 298  Lichens that have such a black exciple are called lecideine, meaning...
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  • Catenarina desolata (category Lichen species)
    Güllü, Mithat; Barták, Miloš (2017). "First record of a common endolithic lichenized fungus species Catenarina desolata Schting, Sgaard & Elvebakk. from...
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  • Catenarina (category Lichen genera)
    description as a lichenicolous lichen, several collections from James Ross Island have a non-lichenicolous habit, and are mostly endolithic. Catenarina desolata...
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  • Acarospora toensbergii (category Lichen species)
    deglaciated alluvial terrace in 2015. Lecidea toensbergii is a lichen characterized by its endolithic (within rock) hypothallus, which does not contain observable...
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  • Caloplaca nashii (category Lichen species)
    sometimes be slightly endolithic (growing inside solid rock). It does not have elongated lobes like some other crustose lichens. It has no prothallus...
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  • Lithoglypha (category Lichen genera)
    The lichen is only known to occur in the Clarens Formation of South Africa. The genus Lithoglypha is characterised by a thallus that is endolithic, meaning...
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  • Watsoniomyces (category Lichen genera)
    Lichinomycetes because it has a thallus (the main body of the lichen) that grows inside rock surfaces (endolithic), unlike others that typically have a crusty (crustose)...
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  • Carlos; Garbayo, Inés; Ascaso, Carmen (2015). "Adaptation strategies of endolithic chlorophototrophs to survive the hyperarid and extreme solar radiation...
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  • (Arnold) Tomas. & Cif. (1952) – hosts: Thelidium, Polyblastia, other endolithic lichens Halospora discrepans (J.Lahm ex Arnold) Hafellner (2011) – hosts:...
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  • Gueidan, Cécile (2014). "Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the endolithic lichen genus Bagliettoa (Ascomycota: Verrucariaceae)". Taxon. 63 (6): 1177–1192...
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    tussock-forming graminoids; cushion plants; and cryptogams, such as bryophytes and lichens. Relative to lower elevation areas in the same region, alpine regions have...
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    Verrucariaceae (category Lichen families)
    [Studies on the anatomy and developmental history of some endolithic pyrenocarpic lichens]. Planta (in German). 53 (3): 246–292. Bibcode:1959Plant..53...
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