Gelatinized

gelatinized (adjective) – curdled, congealed, coagulated, with the consistency of jelly or jam, i. e., a stiffened mucilage -- like a jelly, rubbery, slimy, translucent, swelling when wet; in the gelatinous growth form the thallus is homoimerous (unstratified), and the distinctions among crustose, foliose and fruticose are often blurred.

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