कई लाइकेन और असामान्य कवक में एक cuplike ascocarp

apothecium's Usage Examples:

The Ascolichenes are again divided into Pyrenocarpeae or Pyrenolichenes and Gymnocarpeae or Discolichenes; the first having an ascocarp of the nature of a perithecium, the second bearing their ascospores in an open apothecium.

- Vertical Section of Apothecium of Xanthoria parietina.

This view was hotly contested by many workers and it was sought to explain the trichogyne - without much success - as a respiratory organ, or as a boring organ which made a way for the developing apothecium.

- Diagram showing Apothecium in Section and surrounding Portion of Thallus, and special terms used to designate these parts.

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.

in the formation of this organ or that of the apothecium it has the general structure characteristic of that division of fungi.

The hypothecium is the basal part of the apothecium on which the hymenium is borne; the latter consists of asci (thecae) with ascospores, and paraphyses.

The two principal parts of which an apothecium consists are the hypothecium and the hymenium, or thecium.

We find two chief types of fruit bodies in the lichens, the perithecium and apothecium; the first when the fungal element is a member of the Pyrenomycetes division of the Ascomycetes, the second when the fungus belongs to the Discomycetes division.

size.) ap, Apothecium.

apothecium's Meaning':

a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi