Defn: A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
Defn: A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
Defn: A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.
Defn: An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
A rounded apotheciumhaving an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.
A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
It may be readily effected by moistening the apothecium with water, and then, with a dissecting-knife, making a thin vertical section through its centre.
Nylander called the apothecium pale within, but forms with red-brown hypothecia are admitted by later writers.
A portion of a section through an apothecium of Peltigera canina, showing part of the hymenium of interwoven hyphae below and the bases of three paraphyses above.
The hypothecium is the basal part of the apothecium on which the hymenium is borne; the latter consists of asci (thecae) with ascospores, and paraphyses.
The two principal parts of which an apothecium consists are the hypothecium and the hymenium, or thecium.
Diagram showing Apothecium in Section and surrounding Portion of Thallus, and special terms used to designate these parts.
The perithecium is very constant in form and since the gonidia take no part in the formation of this organ or that of the apothecium it has the general structure characteristic of that division of fungi.
In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.
Various types of ascocarp are characteristic of the different divisions of the Carpoascomycetes: the cleistothecium, apothecium and perithecium.
Owing to the shape of the fruit-body many of these forms are known as cup-fungi, the cup or apothecium often attaining a large size, sometimes several inches across (fig.
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