Squat Gigarystal

The squat gigarystal split from the giga korystal and became half a meter shorter, but it's width has increased from 1.5 to 2 meters. It's spores rarely ever stray far, so many squat gigarystals cluster together to form "reefs" of the organisms. Scince they are now smaller, their lifespan has decreased to only about five years; after this time they disintigrate in a huge swarm of spores. Their reproductive abilities become more defined as they age, making the reefs taller in the center; but after a few hundred years, a reef's central structures will disintegrate.