#Pyxine

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Pyxine cocoes

Buttoned rosette lichen

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Been pirating in sea of thieves with my girlfriend @samhaven a lot lately. I decided to capture her pirate essence in this picture! Behold Sam the Pirate!

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Some mini free art raffle winners c:

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Pyxine subcinerea, Mustard lichen is a species of foliose lichen (is a lichen with flat, leaf-like lobes, which are generally not firmly bonded to the substrate on which it grows). It has a pantropical distribution, and typically grows on bark, but less commonly on rocks.

Kingdom:Fungi

Division:Ascomycota

Class:Lecanoromycetes

Order:Caliciales

Family:Caliciaceae

Genus:Pyxine

Pyxine subcinerea is relatively resistant to air pollution, and has been investigated for use as a candidate for biomonitoring. It bioaccumulates toxic heavy metals that it acquires from the air and retains the pollutants in the thallus, which can then be sampled and assayed to determine their concentration.

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Pyxine sorediata

Mustard lichen

This foliose lichen grows in radiating patches up to 8 cm across. It has flat or slightly concave, subdicotomous lobes which are pale blue-green or gray on the upper surfaces and brown-black and densely rhizinate on the lower surface. It produces soredia from pseudocyphellae along the lobe margins, as well as from rounded soralia on the lobe surface. And inside the lobes, the medulla (fungal hyphal layer) is yellow, giving P. sorediata its common name! It rarely produces apothecia, which are black and up to 1.4 mm in diameter. This little guy grows on mossy bark and rock in temperate or subtropical regions worldwide.

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Pyxine berteroana

This foliose lichen grows in tightly-attached, compact rosettes 5-10 cm in diameter. The upper surface is pale green-gray to yellow gray, with the lobe tips dusted in a thin layer of pale pruina. It has pale pseudocyphellae (pale pores/depressions in the thallus surface ) patterning the lobes and lobe margins. It produces wide, black apothecia up to 2 mm in diameter. The lower surface is densely rhizinate, and black toward the center of the rosette and pale toward the lobe margins. P. berteroana grows on bark, wood, and rock in montane forests of Africa, Australia, and North and South America.

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[samhaven]

A sneak peek at the pyxin template featuring a small paragraph about Breasts

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What do pyxins do when they lay an egg they do not want to take care of?

Answer: Egg chucking contests

Another little peep at my open species guide~

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Find the rest of my open species facts here!

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Pyxine petricola

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