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apothecia

  • plural
    of apothecium.
    apothecium
    noun
    the fruit of certain lichens and fungi: usually an open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped body, the inner surface of which is covered with a layer that bears asci.

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The family is most closely related to the Stictaceae, from which family it is kept distinct on account of the absence of cyphellae and the difference in disposition of the apothecia.

From Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V by Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker

Rarely the thallus extends upward as a veil which surrounds the apothecia laterally and suggests how the thalloid exciple of higher families probably arose.

From Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V by Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker

He then adverted more especially to the subject of his communication, under the ten following heads:— I. The colors of the Thallus and apothecia of Lichens—their causes, and the circumstances which modify and alter them.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

Tuck., with much stronger, darker thallus and apothecia on the whole larger.

From Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V by Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker

Piece of thallus of a Sticta, with section, showing the immersed apothecia; the small openings of these dot the surface.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

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