An apothecium (plural: apothecia) is a wide, open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped fruit body. It is sessile and fleshy. The structure of the apothecium chiefly...

apothecium has an outer margin, the margin is called the exciple.: 14  When the exciple has a color similar to colored thallus tissue the apothecium or...

(3.5 square miles), with an estimated age of nearly 9,000 years. The apothecium—a specialized structure important in sexual reproduction in the ascomycetes—is...

A microscopic section of a lichen apothecium (Amandinea punctata)...

spherical and closed. Apothecia: The asci are in a bowl shaped ascoma (apothecium). These are sometimes called the "cup fungi". Pseudothecia: Asci with...

(théma), θήκη (thḗkē) anathema, anathematic, antithesis, antithetic, apothecium, athematic, Bibliotheca, bodega, boutique, deem, doom, enthesis, enthetic...

aggregated pigment crystals. The proper exciple, a structural component of the apothecium, has distinctly radiating and dichotomously branched hyphae. The lichen's...

year but breaks the surface in the spring to form a cream-coloured cup (apothecium) up to 3 cm (1.2 in) across and 3 cm tall. It is likely mycorrhizal, but...

Sphagnum moss plant with compact clusters of young branches; also the apothecium (fruiting body) of lichens of the order Calicium the capitulum of the...

layer", or "plate". The cap of this fungus (known technically as an apothecium) is 2 to 4 centimetres (3⁄4 to 1+5⁄8 inches) in diameter by 2 to 5 cm...

North America and tropical Asia. They are characterised by a cup-shaped apothecium which is often brightly coloured. They have had a range of popular uses...

year but breaks the surface in the spring to form a cream-coloured cup (apothecium) up to 7 cm across and 5 cm tall. This species occurs in small groups...

Anaptychia palmulata (lobed apothecium)...

Sarcosomataceae. The genus is characterized by the dark brown or black apothecium which is gelatinous or leathery and releases a watery liquid when cut...

becomes more pruinose toward the top and typically has a single round apothecium that is immersed with a dark brown disc, so as to appear like a collection...

is similar to its close relative, C. chacoensis, in terms of general apothecium and campylidium features. However, C. saxicola has a clearly defined and...

description of the genus Geopyxis under which he places it; the texture of the apothecium is described as fleshy, the stem, as short and sometimes thin; while in...

unbranched paraphyses. Apothecium also contained hypothecium which formed by thin-walled hyphae and without excipulum. The tiny apothecium is hemispherical...

rhizocarpic acid and epanorin; there is typically only one apothecium per areole. Inside the apothecium, the perithecium expands up to 100 μm and sometimes forms...

Their size ranges from 1–2.5 mm in diameter. The central disk of the apothecium is either flat or slightly concave, displaying an orange-red colour without...

Acharius introduced numerous terms to describe lichen structures, including apothecium, cephalodium, cyphellae, podetium, proper margin, soredium, and thallus...

laterally and becoming rolled inwards when dry. The outer tissue layer of the apothecium, known as the ectal excipulum, has a delicate tomentose surface composed...

Found in sporangia of Perichanea for example. From Gr. podos, foot. apothecium A type of fruiting body that, at maturity, opens to expose the hymenium...

ending with a cup-like structure about 3–6 mm in diameter. The cup of the apothecium is lined with asci, in which the ascospores are contained. When the ascospores...

conditions. In this stage, the sexual spores (ascospores) are formed in the apothecium. If the weather conditions are favorable for the formation of ascocarps...

rosette of squamulous lobes, or with widely scattered lobes. A single black apothecium may be centered on the lobe. The apothecia disc turns reddish-brown when...

the thallus) surface is concave initially but matures to convex; the apothecium rim also narrows giving the effect that the convex disc is spilling over...

Image of holotype specimen, showing a) habit b) section through centre of apothecium, showing cup-shaped proper exciple (arrow) c) ascus d) spores, showing...

is truly squamulose with overlapping scales.: 217  It usually has 0-1 apothecium per areole, which may be point-like (punctiform) or fill the entire areole...

shape, and measure 7.0–8.0 by 2.0–2.5 μm. The stalk and the head of the apothecium both contain pulvinic acid, a lichen product. Aptroot, André; Mota Junior...