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Ramalina peruviana

Quipu lichen, Peruvian ribbon lichen

This fruticose lichen has many thin, flattened branches and tiny, isidiate branchlets growing out of lateral soredia and branch tips. The surface is pale gray-green interrupted by ellipsoidal or linear pseudocyphellae and punctiform soralia. It only rarely produces apothecia. R. peruviana grows on bark and occasionally rock in tropical and costal regions worldwide. So why is it named R. peruviana? Well, the type specimen used by Erik Acharius to describe the species was found in Peru. What's a type specimen, you may ask? Well when you describe a species, you need to have one specimen of that organism from which characteristics and features of the species description are drawn, and it needs to be stored in a collection where it can be accessed to compare characteristics and potentially DNA with future potential specimens. So even though this entire species grows all over the place and isn't only found in Peru, the name is a nod to the specimen which set the standard for the entire species name. It's pretty weird to think about using one individual as the standard when we know so much physical variation exists between members of the same species, right?

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from inside a cave in the Ozarks in totality

l Joshua Kwekel l Ozark National Forest

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Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)

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what do you meaaaaaaan this is baby sturgeons youre lying to me.... you just Shrunk him

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IC 447

Nick Fritz on Instagram

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Shimunia on Etsy

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#polls #bookblr

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Club-horned Wasp - Sapygidae

#bugs

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by Svetlana Kondrashova

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by Jaeyoun Ryu

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i know that "unalive" is part of larger worrying trend of self censorship but if you really are in a situtation where you have to avoid the words "die" or "kill" the english language already has centuries worth of much better euphemisms. the iconic and perennial "six feet under"? the lovely imagery of "pushing up daisies"? "shuffle off this mortal coil"????? literally anything from the monty python dead parrot bit???? you have so many options. please try to be more creative at least

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Lamproderma pseudomaculatum

by m.k_matto

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Sketches 🕊️ °˖➴

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This is the cutest fucking thing I’ve ever seen in my life

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by Onidaiko

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I stumbled across a photo (by Lindy Pollard) that fantastically mirrors a little dragon I drew a few years ago.... I can't get over this...

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by @aris_kolokontes_macro_wildlife on instagram