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adj. - Relating to or like or divided into small areas, such as interstices or small spaces (as between the veins of leaves)

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  • Veins areolate; fertile fronds taller, twelve to twenty inches high with narrowly linear divisions, the areoles and fruit-dots in a single row each side of the secondary...
  • As the stem elongates and the pileus enlarges and expands, the volva is torn into areolate patches.
  • Thallus crustose, without plectenchymatous cortex (Fig. 2, a), varying from granulose and often evanescent to conspicuous, areolate, or even subsquamulose conditions,...
  • Thallus of small or minute, flattened or rugose, scattered or clustered, ash-grey to green-gray granules, these bursting into sorediate heaps, or forming a moderately thick,...
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