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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

apothecium, is also poorly developed. It appears brownish-black on the outside but is colourless on the inside. The uppermost layer of the apothecium...

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 3 cm (1.2 in) across and 3 cm tall. It is likely mycorrhizal, but...

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...

discoveries were becoming increasingly contradictory for scientists. The apothecium reproductive organ being unique to fungi but absent in other photosynthetic...

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...

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...

involucrellum—a protective covering found in some lichens. The central disc of the apothecium is black and relatively small. As the lichen matures, the margins of the...

the apothecium, known as the exciple, is made of tightly packed fungal cells (paraplectenchymatous) and is 30–50 μm wide. Inside the apothecium, the...

(spore-bearing layer) is colourless, while the epihymenium (uppermost layer of the apothecium) is orange, reacting purple in potassium hydroxide (K) before fading....

dark red-brown when wet and turns black when dry. The outer rim of the apothecium, the exciple, is pale pink or whitish and has a rough texture. The asci...

composed of brown fungal filaments (hyphae). The uppermost layer of the apothecium (epithecium) is brownish, while the spore-producing region below (hymenium)...

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

underside of Sticta lichens as cyphellae in 1794, he added the terms apothecium, cephalodium, podetium, proper margin, soredium, and thallus in 1803;...

themselves are brown-orange. The paraphyses (sterile structures within the apothecium) are slender, segmented, and curve gently, with ends that are only slightly...

apothecium) is composed of densely packed, palisade-like cells and is up to 15 μm thick. The true exciple (the inner tissue layer of the apothecium)...