An apothecium (plural: apothecia) is a wide, open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped fruit body. It is sessile and fleshy. The structure of the apothecium chiefly...

apothecium has an outer margin, the margin is called the exciple.: 14  When the exciple has a color similar to colored thallus tissue the apothecium or...

(3.5 square miles), with an estimated age of nearly 9,000 years. The apothecium—a specialized structure important in sexual reproduction in the ascomycetes—is...

year but breaks the surface in the spring to form a cream-coloured cup (apothecium) up to 7 cm across and 5 cm tall. This species occurs in small groups...

A microscopic section of a lichen apothecium (Amandinea punctata)...

spherical and closed. Apothecia: The asci are in a bowl shaped ascoma (apothecium). These are sometimes called the "cup fungi". Pseudothecia: Asci with...

becomes more pruinose toward the top and typically has a single round apothecium that is immersed with a dark brown disc, so as to appear like a collection...

Anaptychia palmulata (lobed apothecium)...

aggregated pigment crystals. The proper exciple, a structural component of the apothecium, has distinctly radiating and dichotomously branched hyphae. The lichen's...

North America and tropical Asia. They are characterised by a cup-shaped apothecium which is often brightly coloured. They have had a range of popular uses...