usneaceae
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1. fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fungus family, |
| definition | : | includes lichen families (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus usnea, usnea, |
| definition | : | widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | evernia, genus evernia, |
| definition | : | lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus ramalina, ramalina, |
| definition | : | shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | alectoria, genus alectoria, |
| definition | : | lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | division lichenes, lichenes, |
| definition | : | comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi (noun.plant) |
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