| LICHENS -MOSS |
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| Plants flat more or less prostrate, and anchored to the substrate over much or all of their underside. Plants more or less loosely attached to the substrate, usually by rhizines; with a lower cortex. Lacking an upright axis that is round in cross-section and with upright leaf-like lobes. Colour can vary from pale grey, yellowish green, dark green, light brown, dark brown, orange, red to almost black, depending on species. |
| Plants composed of an upright or hanging axis that is anchored at the base to the substrate and is more or less round in cross-section, squamules lacking. They are often found hanging from tree branches. |
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| FOLIOSE LICHENS |
| FRUTICOSE LICHENS |
| SQUAMULOSE LICHENS |
| This group is sometimes treated separately from the rest of the fruticose lichens because they are so distinct. These plants have upright axes that are more or less round in cross-section. Leaf-like lobes are often present at the base of the podetia. They are commonly found growing on the ground, on soil, rotting wood and amongst mosses. |
| Plants crust-like, flat, more or less prostrate, anchored to the substrate over all or most of their underside. More or less firmly attached to the sustrate by their bodies but not by rhizines; sometimes with a tiny secondary upright axis which bears the fruiting body. Always lacking a lower cortex |
| CRUSTOSE LICHENS |
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| Cryptic Paw |
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| Oldgrowth Specklrbelly |
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| Seaside Bone |
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| Rigid Apple Moss |
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| Haller's Apple Moss |
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| Boreal Felt Lichen |