The plural form of basidiolichen; multiple lichens that contain basidiomycete fungi as their fungal partners.
Plural form of 'basidiolichen' using the Latin plural '-enes.' The term reflects the systematic classification system used in lichenology to group lichens by their fungal partner type.
Scientists discovered that lichens could have different fungal partners, so they created this word to talk about all the unusual lichens that use basidiomycete fungi—basically, it's scientific Latin for 'the weird lichen club.'
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