कई लाइकेन और असामान्य कवक में एक cuplike ascocarp

apothecia's Usage Examples:

apotheciumue-green apothecia are sometimes seen on the surface of colonized wood, but are not common.

apotheciumus also produces small, blue-green, cup-shaped apothecia, but they are uncommon.

apotheciumlose-up of part of the thallus, showing the disc-shaped apothecia which release ascospores. [© Jim Deacon] Fig.

Apothecia seldom round, usually elongatedellipsoidal, no capillitium.

Most systems agree in deriving the major divisions from the characters of the reproductive organs (perithecia, apothecia, or basidiospore bearing fructification), while the characters of the algal cells and those of the thallus generally are used for the minor divisions.

Xanthoria parietina has been known to grow for fortyfive years before bearing apothecia.

The spores are ejected from the apothecia and peri thecia as in the fungi by forcible ejacu lation from the asci.

The apothecia, though of the normal fungal type and usually disk-shaped, are somewhat more variable, and since the Morphologie and Biologie der Pilze, Mycetozoen und 1 The thalline margin (margo thallinus) is the projecting edge of a special layer of thallus, the amphithecium, round the actual apothecium; the proper margin (margo proprius) is the projecting edge of the apothecium itself.

Lecideine apothecia, which are not black, but otherwise variously coloured, are termed biatorine.

Podetia bearing apothecia.

apothecia's Meaning':

a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi