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    There are three major types of lichens: fruticose, foliose, and crustose. Fruticose lichens have a rounded, branched structure. Foliose lichens have leaf-like lobes and may be attached at one point, with a second cortex below the medulla. Crustose lichens are tightly attached to the substrate, giving them a crusty appearance. Lichens are a symbiotic association between a fungus and an algae or cyanobacterium.

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    There are three major types of lichens: fruticose, foliose, and crustose. Fruticose lichens have a rounded, branched structure. Foliose lichens have leaf-like lobes and may be attached at one point, with a second cortex below the medulla. Crustose lichens are tightly attached to the substrate, giving them a crusty appearance. Lichens are a symbiotic association between a fungus and an algae or cyanobacterium.

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    There are three major types of lichens: fruticose, foliose, and crustose. Fruticose lichens have a rounded, branched structure. Foliose lichens have leaf-like lobes and may be attached at one point, with a second cortex below the medulla. Crustose lichens are tightly attached to the substrate, giving them a crusty appearance. Lichens are a symbiotic association between a fungus and an algae or cyanobacterium.

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    Lichens can be classified based on their morphology into three major types: fruticose, foliose, and crustose lichens. They are also slow growing and can live for centuries in a variety of habitats, where they are environmentally important by helping to create soil, provide food, and act as indicators of air pollution.

    The three major types of lichens are fruticose, foliose, and crustose lichens.

    The Oldgrowth Specklebelly lichen (Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis Imsh.) is a distinctive macrolichen characterized by large, draping, curtain-like lobes, a pale greenish-blue upper surface, and a pale lower surface bearing scattered small white spots (pseudocyphellae).

    Fruticose lichens have rounded structures and an overall branched appearance.

    Foliose lichens Have leaf-like lobes, they may only be attached at one point in the
    growth form, and they also have a second cortex below the medulla.
    Crustose lichens Lichens that are tightly attached to the substrate, giving them a
    crusty appearance.

    Fruticose lichen

    Cladonia fimbriata is characterized by the green (grayish when exposed so sun),


    thick, persistent layer of very fine soredia on podetia. The cups are generally
    symmetrical and often bear fimbriate proliferations on the margin.

    Letharia vulpina, which is sufficiently poisonous that it was once used to make
    arrowheads, 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, the Pacific Northwest and northern Rocky Mountains of
    Western North America. This species is somewhat toxic to mammals due to the
    yellow pigment vulpinic acid, and has been used historically as a poison for wolves
    and foxes. It has also been used traditionally by many native North American
    ethnic groups as a pigment source for dyes and paints.

    Foliose lichens

    The Oldgrowth Specklebelly lichen (Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis Imsh.) is a


    distinctive macrolichen characterized by large, draping, curtain-like lobes, a pale
    greenish-blue upper surface, a green algal photobiont (accompanied by a
    cyanobacterial photobiont in the form of internal cephalodia), ragged, lobulate to
    isidiate lobe margins, and a pale lower surface bearing scattered small white spots
    (pseudocyphellae).

    Flavoparmelia caperata or common greenshield lichen (from Lichens of North


    America) is a medium to large foliose lichen that has a very distinctive pale yellow
    green upper cortex when dry. The rounded lobes, measuring 3–8 mm (0.1–0.3 in)
    wide, usually have patches of granular soredia arising from pustules.

    Crustose lichens

    Pleopsidium chlorophanum (gold cobblestone lichen) is a distinctively colored,


    bright lemon-yellow to chartreuse[3] crustose lichen, which favors dry arctic or
    alpine sandstone cliffs and boulders. It's a rare alpine lichen in Europe. It is in the
    Pleopsidium genus of the Acarosporaceae family.

    Caloplaca marina the Orange Sea Lichen is a crustose, placodioid lichen. It has
    wide distribution, and can be found near the shore on rocks or walls. Calos in
    Greek means nice, placa in Greek is shield. Caloplaca therefore means 'beautiful
    patches'.
    Lichens are classified as fungi and the fungal partners belong to the Ascomycota
    and Basidiomycota. Lichens can also be grouped into types based on their
    morphology. There are three major types of lichens. Lichens are slow growing and
    can live for centuries in a variety of habitats. Lichens are environmentally
    important, helping to create soil, providing food, and acting as indicators of air
    pollution.

    Lichens are a symbiotic association between a fungus and an algae or a


    cyanobacterium. The symbiotic association found in lichens is currently
    considered to be a controlled parasitism, in which the fungus benefits and the
    algae or cyanobacterium is harmed. Lichens are slow growing and can live for
    centuries in a variety of habitats. Lichens are environmentally important, helping
    to create soil, providing food, and acting as indicators of air pollution

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