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Thallus habit: erect, bushy, articulated, more or less densely
ramified and attached to a fixed substratum;
tab. 1
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Semiendophytic thalli (evident as
globoid, raised conceptacles);
Choreonema
thuretii
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Free-living thalli: cylindrical,
formed by small branches, or subspherical with lumpy protuberances
(sometimes differently ramified) with lamellae or overlapping one
another as:
tab. 8
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Encrusting, layered thalli with excrescences of
different shaped: knobbly, lumpy, cylindrical (simple or ramified
never articulated), foliose lamellae (lying on different planes more or
less vertical to the substratum) even coalescent, crested as;
tab. 13
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Encrusting, layered thalli without excrescences: epiphytic on algae
(therefore even encircling the host (see m)), seagrasses, epizoic
on molluscs or epilithic (on pebbles, therefore mobile with the
substratum), thin, translucent (see t
) as:
tab. 28
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