Placodioid lichen

A placodioid lichen is a crustose lichen with a growth form that radiates out from a center, sometimes peeling up at the ends of the radial arms to have a leafy form, but without a cortex on the underside, like a foliose lichen.[1]

References

  1. ↑ What is a lichen?, Australian National Botanical Garden
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