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Crustose

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lichennounAny of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.
corallinesnounAny calcareous species of red algae of the family Corallinaceae.
lichensRobert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is an American musician, composer and sound artist who records under the moniker Lichens.
subcrustose(of a lichen) Intermediate between crustose and foliose
licheniformHaving the form of a lichen.
lichenousCovered in lichen.
paraplectenchymatous(lichenology) Having a cellular structure superficially like parenchyma of vascular plants with hyphae going in all directions.
appressed(biology, mycology) Closely flattened down.
lecidiene(lichenology) Lacking a margin around the thallus, or having a margin made of the excipulum itself (of the apothecium)
apothecial(lichenology) Relating to the apothecium.
lichenoselichenous
apotheciate(lichenology) Consisting of an apothecium.
appressed-squamulose(mycology) Having squamules that lie flat.
loricatenoun(zoology) Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.
lichenoidResembling lichen
lichenicolousLiving or growing on lichen.
appressed-fibrillose-striate(mycology, rare) Having appressed fibrils in the form of radiating lines (used to describe the surface of the stem or cap of a mushroom).
amphigenous(botany) growing on all sides of a leaf, as in the lichens
pustulocrustaceous(medicine) Characterized by the formation of pustules and crusts.
fibrillosenounCovered with fibrils, such as fungi or the undersurface of some lichens.

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