This promotes soil building and the environment becomes suitable for growth of foliose and fruticose type of lichens.
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Fruticose lichens have a single cortex wrapping all the way around the " stems " and " branches ".
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Lichens have a main body part called the thallus, which is composed of hyphae, and houses the fruticose.
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Fruticose, foliose, crustose, and squamulose lichens generally have up to three different types of tissue, some lichens.
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It is a genus of eight currently accepted species . " Protousnea " species have a fruticose growth form.
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Fruticose lichens have one cortex encircling the " branches ", even when the branches are flattened and look like " leaves ".
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""'Vermilacinia acicularis " "'is a fruticose lichen that occurs in the Channel Islands of California.
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""'Vermilacinia reptilioderma " "'is a rare fruticose lichen found on the Vizca�no Peninsula and Cedros Island of Baja California.
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""'Vermilacinia ceruchis " "'is a fruticose lichen found on sand and rock in coastal fog areas of Peru and Chile.
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The internal structure of fruticose lichen is composed of a dense outer cortex, a thin algal layer, a medulla and a hollow center or a dense central cord.
