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...

conditions. In this stage, the sexual spores (ascospores) are formed in the apothecium. If the weather conditions are favorable for the formation of ascocarps...

apothecium, is also poorly developed. It appears brownish-black on the outside but is colourless on the inside. The uppermost layer of the apothecium...

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

Acharius introduced numerous terms to describe lichen structures, including apothecium, cephalodium, cyphellae, podetium, proper margin, soredium, and thallus...

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...

rosette of squamulous lobes, or with widely scattered lobes. A single black apothecium may be centered on the lobe. The apothecia disc turns reddish-brown when...