The leaves and stem of the foliose forms effect the same division of labour in another way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The monkey forages on foliose lichen and the young leaves and shoots of trees like Betula spp. and Sorbus spp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests] Reference

Some multicellular brown algae form branched filaments or foliose plants many meters long with complex anatomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phytoplankton] Reference

Jungermanniaceae the plant is throughout foliose, and the archegonia occupy the ends of the main shoot or of its branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The deeper stretches of the steep drop-off show foliose or plate-like forms of Pachyseris, Leptoseris and Montipora at 20-30 m depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tubbataha Reef Marine Park, Philippines] Reference

Along the coastal stretch are compact gravel deserts devoid of vegetation except for colorful fields of foliose and crustose lichens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kaokoveld desert] Reference

There are about 1,700 kinds of plants in the arctic and subarctic, and these include: low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, and grasses, 400 varieties of flowering plants, crustose and foliose lichen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tundra biome] Reference

In spite of this, however, they are in great part dependent on the absorption of water through the general surface of the shoot, and the power of rapid imbibition possessed by their cell-walls, the crowded position of the small leaves on the stem, and special adaptations for the retention of water on the surface, have the same significance as in the foliose liverworts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The thallus is plainly foliose with the margins of the lobes usually ascending and is gray-green to brown in color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] Reference

Thallus foliose, with plectenchymatous cortex above (Fig. 5), or both above and below (Fig. 2), with medulla of loosely interwoven hyphae, trichomatic hyphae, usually present, attached to the substratum by compound rhizoids; apothecia of considerable size, commonly on extended lobes, usually imbedded in the tissues on the upper side, or more rarely on the lower side; exciple inconspicuous; hypothecium usually light or darker brown; hymenium usually pale below and brown or tinged brown above; paraphyses simple or branched, distinct, seldom gelatinized or coherent; spores hyaline or brown, 4 - to several-celled, elongated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] Reference