Pin lichen

Noun

Definitions

1.NounAny of certain crustose lichen with small upward-pointing fruiting bodies supposed to resemble dressmakers' pins, including members of the genera Calicium (stubble lichen) and Chaenotheca (needle lichen, stubble lichen, whisker lichen).

Synonyms

cup lichen parelle pseudocyphella apothecium map lichen cephalolichen tholus trica pinnule cistella exciple lichenist

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