The paraphyses are present, usually slender and round.
The paraphyses are few, short, separate, clavate, and brownish at the tips.
The paraphyses branch and form a network (capillitium) over the asci, the capillitium and ejected spores forming a long persistent powdery mass (mazaedium).
Paraphyses may be present as aborted basidia, but cystidia are rarely distinguished.
In some species, however, the paraphyses are rare, and the mucilaginous substance is entirely wanting.
The asci and paraphyses are very minute, but do not differ essentially in structure from those of Parmelia.
In this moss, the paraphyses are inflated at the summit into little knobs, or they are capitate (fig.
The paraphyses are commonly distinct in young apothecia, but in mature apothecia they are usually more or less gelatinized and coherent.
Five paraphyses of Rhizocarpon alboatrum to illustrate types of simple and branched forms found in the same hymenium.
In some of the species, they become so gelatinized that they form a homogeneous mass about the asci, in which the individual paraphyses are no longer discernible.
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.
When distinct, the paraphyses are sometimes branched, most commonly toward their apices (Fig.
The sterile tissue from which the paraphyses h spring.
The asci are always present, theparaphyses are sometimes rare, and the mucilage in many cases seems to be entirely wanting.
This substance appears as a colourless or yellowish mucilage, which envelopes the paraphyses and asci, and so covers the hymenium with a shining coat.
Pileus= broadly rounded or truncate, its costæ slightly prominent, the margin often a little recurved; paraphyses numerous.
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