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Fruticose or ‘shrubby’ lichens differ from other forms of lichen because their bushy form is attached to the substrate only at the base of the lichen. A continuous algal layer grows around the circumference of the branches of the lichen. [3] Many fruticose lichens have fine, round, hair-like structures and are loosely attached to rocks and ...
Letharia vulpina, commonly known as the wolf lichen (although the species name vulpina, from vulpine relates to the fox), is a fruticose lichenized species of fungus in the family Parmeliaceae. It is bright yellow-green, shrubby and highly branched, and grows on the bark of living and dead conifers in parts of western and continental Europe and ...
A fruticose lichen may have flattened "branches", appearing similar to a foliose lichen, but the underside of a leaf-like structure on a fruticose lichen is the same color as the top side. The leaf-like lobes of a foliose lichen may branch, giving the appearance of a fruticose lichen, but the underside will be a different color from the top ...
It is large, usually somewhat circular, and has a distinctive yellowish-green color (when wet — more gray when dry). ... even into, the substrate, and fruticose lichens, which grow as free ...
A lichen with a shrub-like or hairy thallus attached to the substrate at a single point. [202] fruticulose Also fruticulous . A smaller version of a fruticose lichen. [202] See related: microlichen. fulvous An yellow-brown or tawny color. [43] funiculus See umbilicate lichen. funoid Made of fibers or rope-like strands. [43] furcate Forked. [213 ...
For example, Caloplaca albovariegata is an orange lichen, but it is not orange in color. Lichen species common names are often the same as the common name of the genus they are in, or are a modification of that common name by adding an adjective. But sometimes the parts of a lichen species common name are common names of other lichen genera.
Cladonia rangiferina, also known as reindeer cup lichen, [2] reindeer lichen (cf. Sw. renlav) or grey reindeer lichen, is a light-coloured fruticose, cup lichen species in the family Cladoniaceae. It grows in both hot and cold climates in well-drained, open environments. Found primarily in areas of alpine tundra, it is extremely cold-hardy.
Cladonia sobolescens, commonly known as the peg lichen, is a species of fruticose lichen. [2] ... and range in color from greyish to green to brown, depending on the ...