Rhizine


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Rhi´zine


n.1.(Bot.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Lichen's rhizine only attach on the substrate that compatible with it.
Goyal and Seaward [216] demonstrated possible metal uptake by lichen's rhizine, Prussia and Killingbeck [217] explained differences in lichen metal content associated with differences in substrata, and De Bruin and Hackenitz [218] found metal concentrations which did not differ between lichens and their bark substrata.