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This tome includes detailed entries on more than 800 foliose, fruticose, and crustose lichens.
Therefore, no data were available in these species for the developmental transition of meristem from the juvenile to the mature foliose root.
Where thriving foliose and fruticose lichens can be found, the environment is clean and healthy.
In foliose lichens there is a lower cortex and in fruticose lichens the lower cortex is replaced by a central one.
The mechanism of the limpet effect involved sheltering of the limpet by the foliose fronds of this turf-forming alga.
In foliose lichens, there is a second cortex below the medulla.
Crottle, the largest foliose lichen, resembles crumpled leather and sometimes grows 90 to 120 centimetres in diameter.
On old silver birches the bark can become corklike and deeply fissured, with parts covered by large colonies of the yellow foliose lichen, Candelaria concolor.
Other common foliose genera include Cetraria, Parmelia, Peltigera, and Physcia.
But these leafy parts lack a lower cortex, which distinguishes crustose and squamulose lichens from foliose lichens.
Thirty-one species are of the crustose growth form, 27 are foliose, 8 are fruticose and 3 are squamulose.
The foliose forms are flat, leaflike, and loosely attached to a surface.
One foliose lichen and two moss samples were collected from trees at Drake's Seat on Saint Thomas.
For instance, Seki reported that the foliose green algae Ulva sp.
Fruticose, foliose, crustose, and squamulose lichens generally have up to three different types of tissue, differentiated by having different densities of fungal filaments.
In crustose and foliose lichens, algae in the photobiontic layer are diffuse among the fungal filaments, decreasing in gradation into the layer below.
Foliose lichens may sometimes branch and appear to be fruticose.
Foliose lichens on rock growing outward and dying in the center.
Examples from Classical Literature
Blasia pusilla, which occurs commonly by ditches and streams, affords a transition to the foliose types.
The leaves and stem of the foliose forms effect the same division of labour in another way.
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