apothecium's Usage Examples:

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

From the sclerotia later the apothecium develops.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

apotheciumlose-up of part of the thallus, showing the disc-shaped apothecia which release ascospores.

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.

Various types of ascocarp are characteristic of the different divisions of the Carpoascomycetes: the cleistothecium, apothecium and perithecium.