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Grimy gray, sprinkled in places with lichenlike green stuff, it pictures a technological future run amok.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2011

Martian lichenlike plants might get enough water out of vapor from the icecaps, which evaporate without melting.

From Time Magazine Archive

In their place are blackish warts, lichenlike incrustations, or sick-looking globules.

From Time Magazine Archive

The over-arching trees were less closely packed, and they came across occasional rock clearings which were bare of vegetation except for a dense carpet of brown, lichenlike vegetation that secreted an astonishing amount of juice.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry