apothecium
[ap-uh-thee-shee-uh m, -see-]
- 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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Cyclocarpineae, Apothecium usually circular, no capillitium.
Piece of thallus of Parmelia conspersa, with section through an apothecium.
The Elements of BotanyAsa Gray
Nylander called the apothecium pale within, but forms with red-brown hypothecia are admitted by later writers.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6Bruce Fink and Leafy J. Corrington
In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.
The cup, or shield-shaped spot, or knob, which bears the fructification is named the Apothecium.
The Elements of BotanyAsa Gray
apothecium
- botany a cup-shaped structure that contains the asci, esp in lichens; a type of ascocarp
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Word Origin
C19: from New Latin, from apo- + Greek thēkion a little case
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apothecium
[ăp′ə-thē′sē-əm, -shē-]
- A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.
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