fruticose in English

adjective
1
(of a lichen) having upright or pendulous branches.
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1. Lichen is classified into Crustose, foliose and fruticose species

2. Crustose lichens Foliose and fruticose lichens are clearly three dimensional and show much obvious variation in form.

3. Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically Niebla Brachyura is a rare fruticose lichen that grows along the Pacific Coast of

4. Definition of Crustose : having a thin thallus adhering closely to a substrate (as of rock, bark, or soil) Crustose lichens — compare foliose, fruticose First Known Use of …

5. Crustose: crust-like lichens that may be buried in tree bark, or even between the crystals of rocks Fruticose: miniature shrub-like lichens.—one lichen of this type is the famous "reindeer moss" of Lapland

6. 44% that reproduce primarily through sexual ascospores; iii) comprised of 65% Crustose taxa, 29% foliose taxa, and 6% fruticose taxa: iv) one wherein many species arc rare (e.g., 55% of species were collected fewer than three times) and frulicose lichens other than Cladonia were entirely absent; and v) one wherein cyanolichens were poorly