LICHEN BIOLOGY

1. Life form

1) Crustose
(crust-like) 		2) Foliose
(leaf-like) 		3) Fruticose
(shrubby and filamentous)
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Lecanora campestris 		lobaria pulmonaria---.jpg (8651 bytes)
Lobaria pulmonaria 		cladonia---.jpg (8944 bytes)
Cladonia rangiformis
 

2. Algal partner

Chlorophyta (Green algae)  

Cyanobacteria (Blue-green algae)
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Trebouxia		   noctoc---.jpg (7848 bytes)
Nostoc
 

3. Fungal partner

About 98 % Ascomycetes (most frequently present in lichens),

0,4 % Basidiomycetes,

1,6 % Deuteromycetes (Fungi Imperfecti)
 

4. Reproduction

Sexual reproduction

Vegetative reproduction

(ascospores in asci)
(ascospores produced by fungal partner) 		sored eşeysiz---.jpg (9655 bytes)
soredia		 izid eşeysiz---.jpg (9616 bytes)
isidia
 
  5. Fruitbodies
Apothecia

longitudinal section "Physcia aipolia"

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sessile "Ochrolechia parella"

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stalked "Calicium glauellum"
Perithecium


longitudinal section "Verrucaria glaucina"
 
     
 
 

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