Definition & Meaning | English word BASIDIOLICHENS

Definitions of BASIDIOLICHENS

1. plural of basidiolichen.

Examples of Using BASIDIOLICHENS in a Sentence

• Originally conceived as containing white-spored, thick-gilled agarics (gilled mushrooms), including Hygrophorus and Hygrocybe species (the waxcaps or waxy caps), DNA evidence has extended the limits of the family, so it now contains not only agarics, but also basidiolichens and corticioid fungi.
• Basidiolichens are lichenized members of the Basidiomycota that form a much smaller group of lichens than the far more common ascolichens in the Ascomycota.
• However, a small percentage of lichens (approximately 10%) are cyanolichens and contain a photosynthetic cyanobacterium instead of green algae, and an even smaller number (less than 1%) are basidiolichens and contain a basidiomycete fungus instead of an ascomycete.
• The foliose forms of the genus Dictyonema are the most commonly collected basidiolichens, often found growing on soil, between bryophytes or as epiphytes on trees.
• Lawrey, who, according to the authors, "has made numerous contributions to lichenology in such diverse fields as ecology, lichenicolous fungi, and the evolution of basidiolichens and their photobionts".

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