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...

Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate...

calicioid, cladoniform, crustose, filamentous, foliose, fruticose, gelatinous, leprose, placoidioid and squamulose. Traditionally, crustose (flat), foliose (leafy)...

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...

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...

of leaves (foliose lichens); others cover the substrate like a crust (crustose lichens) (illustration, right), others such as the genus Ramalina adopt...

larvae often need a biological cue to induce settlement such as specific crustose coralline algae species or microbial biofilms. High failure rates afflict...

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...

Douglas-fir dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium douglasii). Epiphytes such as crustose lichens and mosses are common sights on Douglas-firs. As it is only moderately...

for red rocks) are colorful, unattached calcareous nodules, composed of crustose, benthic marine red algae that resemble coral. Rhodolith beds create biogenic...

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...

molecules), acidophiles (acid loving lichens), wolf lichens, crustose lichens on rock, crustose lichens on bark and wood, biotic soil crusts, aquatic lichens...

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....

Dendrographa austrosorediata is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Roccellaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described...

Krustflechten" [On the biological relationships of the thallus of some crustose lichens]. Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen (in German). 2: 123–200. From...

Lecanora markjohnstonii is a species of crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. Found in the southern Appalachian Mountain region of the United States...

Graphis scripta is a crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It is commonly called script lichen, secret writing lichen, or similar names, because...

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...

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...

Crystals of norstictic acid, obtained by adding potassium hydroxide solution to an apothecial section of the crustose lichen Aspicilia cinerea...

Caloplaca adnexa is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It was formally described as a new species...

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...

Verrucariales. The lichens have a wide variety of thallus forms, from crustose (crust-like) to foliose (bushy) and squamulose (scaly). Most of them grow...

Placidiopsis hypothallina is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae, described as a new species in 2002....

Lecanora laxa is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. List of Lecanora species Śliwa, L.; Wetmore, C.L...

Caloplaca fraserensis is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. Found in Australia, it was formally described...

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...

Thelomma ocellatum is a crustose lichen inactive species that belonged to the family Caliciaceae. It was first described by Körber and later reassigned...

Erichansenia epithallina is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It is also a lichenicolous lichen species...

Phlyctis argena is a species of crustose lichen. Phlyctis argena has a thin crustose thallus that is white, greyish or green-grey in colour. The identification...