Byssoid lichen
GROSS MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
Calicoid; Calicoid lichen; Pin lichen; Byssoid lichen; Filamentous lichen; Placodioid lichen; Gelatinous lichen; Leprose lichen; Aereolate; Aereolate lichen; Areolate; Areola (lichen); Crustose placoidioid; Crustose placodioid lichen; Placoidioid; Areolate lichen; Placodiod lichen; Byssoid; Calicioid lichen; Alectorioid; Alectorioid lichen
A byssoid lichen"Byssoid" means "flax-like" or "silk-like", from the Greek βύσσος (f.), flax (Linum angustifolium, Linum usitatissimum), Indian cotton (Gossypium herbaceum), silk; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940, p.