calicioid

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Noun

calicioid (plural calicioids)

  1. Any lichen-forming fungus of the family Caliciaceae.
    • 2016 January 23, “A Pine Is a Pine and a Spruce Is a Spruce – The Effect of Tree Species and Stand Age on Epiphytic Lichen Communities”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      Some lichen species were common in all stand types, e.g. Hypogymnia physodes, Parmeliopsis ambigua, and Bryoria fuscescens, but the calicioid lichens (Calicium glaucellum, Chaenotheca chrysocephala, C.