A foliose lichen is a lichen with flat, leaf-like lobes, which are generally not firmly bonded to the substrate on which it grows. It is one of the three...

groups are not precisely defined. Foliose lichens may sometimes branch and appear to be fruticose. Fruticose lichens may have flattened branching parts...

crustose, foliose and fruticose are considered to be the three main forms. An areolate lichen is the most common form of crustose lichen. As with all...

greenshield lichen, is a foliose lichen that grows on the bark of trees, and occasionally on rock. Flavoparmelia caperata is a medium to large foliose lichen that...

appearance; can resemble a foliose lichen but usually has no outer cortex. Cladoniform – squamulose, but with fruticose podetia. Lichens can be classified by...

parietina is a foliose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It has wide distribution, and many common names such as common orange lichen, yellow scale...

leafy, the lichen may appear to be a foliose lichen, but the underside does not have a "skin" (cortex), as foliose lichens do. Squamulose lichens are composed...

foliicolous lichen Also epiphyllous lichen. A lichen that grows on a plant leaf. foliole A small leaf-like outgrowth from the thallus of a foliose lichen. foliose...

group lichens by "vegetative" thallus types, and forms of "non-vegetative" reproductive parts. Some lichen thalli have the aspect of leaves (foliose lichens);...

conditions, foliose lichens with broad lobes are prevalent. In comparison, crustose lichens have less surface area than foliose lichens and will tend...