Alectoria

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Alectoria - lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus

fungus genus - includes lichen genera

family Usneaceae, Usneaceae - fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria

horsehair lichen, horsetail lichen - any of several lichens of the genus Alectoria having a thallus consisting of filaments resembling hair

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The RBGE are appealing to Mountaineering Scotland's members to report sightings of Cicerbita alpina (alpine blue sowthistle), Saxifraga cespitosa (tufted saxifrage) - when on Ben Alder, Ben Avon, Ben Nevis or in the mountains of Torridon and northern Skye - and Alectoria ochroleuca (alpine sulphur tresses) found in areas of windclipped heathland, typically between about 750 and 950 metres altitude, on mountains in and surrounding the Cairngorms.

Mountaineers asked to keep watch for rare plants; CONSERVATION

According to the interviewees in Kuukas and Oraniemi (Males 2-5), reindeer owners helped reindeer by cutting trees rich in arboreal lichens (Bryoria spp., Alectoria spp., Usnea spp.) when the digging conditions for terricolous lichens (Cladonia sp., Cladina sp.) were the most difficult, or when the pastures were poor in lichens because of high reindeer numbers (Itkonen, 1948; Alaruikka, 1964; Ruuttula-Vasari, 2004; Kortesalmi, 2007) (Table 2).

Past and present winter feeding of reindeer in Finland: herders' adaptive learning of feeding practices

y como ocasionales Guzmania monostachya, Epidendrum nocturnum, Epidendrum sp., Alectoria sp., Polypodium aureum y Campyloneurum phyllitidis.

Sintaxones de los pinares de Pinus cubensis de la zona nororiental de Cuba

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