Cryptogams: Algae, lichens and mosses in textbook illustrations

Some highlights from the long-awaited textbook (clockwise from top left): Types of contact between lichenized fungi and their photosymbionts at a cellular level; schematic protein transport through mitochondrial and chloroplastic double membranes; serial climax from fen to raised bog; Glaucophyte in schematized external view and in cell section with chloroplasts; Euglena structure and schematic detail of the anchoring of the pellicle bands; life cycle of the red alga Batrachospermum; growth forms of various lichens; filamentous colony of cyanobacteria in cell section.

digital painting, around 2020

Büdel, B., Friedl, T., & Beyschlag, W. (2024): Biology of algae, lichens and bryophytes. Springer Spektrum.

 

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