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

Traditionally, 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...

like a thick coat of paint (crustose); have a powder-like appearance (leprose); or other growth forms. A macrolichen is a lichen that is either bush-like...

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...

lichen Also placoid, placodiomorph. A crustose lichen with an areolate center and radiating lobes on the circumference. plasticolous lichen A lichen that...

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

fruticose lichen is the shape of the thallus. Like crustose lichen, fruticose lichen is composed of a holdfast which will act as an anchor for the lichen to...

structure bearing spines on cacti Areola (lichen), a round to polygonal part of a surface of a crustose lichen Areola (entomology), a small ring of color...

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....

and saxicolous lichen, which grows on rock. Examples of corticolous lichens include the crustose lichen Graphis plumierae, foliose lichen Melanohalea subolivacea...