Difference between revisions of "Continuous"

'''continuous''' (''adj.'') – more or less unbroken, not interrupted, (1) a cortex without pores or cracks; (2) a crustose thallus with an intact surface, lacking fissures, cracks or fractures, not subdivided. The term is sometimes erroneously applied to [[contiguous]] crustose thalli, i. e., thalli that are ''subdivided'' but entirely composed of closely adjoining areoles that all together share a common edge or boundary. (4) also loosely applied to any thallus that is not clearly subdivided into distinct subunits: a continuous or rimose crusts has no distinct subunits; a single-lobed umbilicate thallus is not subdivided; very few fruticose lichens like ''Thamnolia vermicularis'' are undivided or barely branched ([[vermiform]]); ''cf.'' [[adjoining]].