Leprose lichen

A leprose lichen is a lichen with a powdery or granular surface.[1] Leprose lichens lack an outer "skin," or cortex.[1] If a crustose lichen starts to disintegrate, it will appear powdery, but crustose lichens have a cortex, and leprose lichens do not.[1][2] Leprose lichens have no inner or outer cortex. They sometimes have a weak kind of medulla, but are composed mainly of the fungal hyphae and an algae.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fioliose lichens, Lichen Thallus Types, Allan Silverside
  2. ↑ http://www.earthlife.net/lichens/lichen.html
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