Aspicilioid - LIAS Glossary

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aspicilioid (adjective) – describing an emergent lecanorine apothecium that resemble a volcano, i. e., one that emerges from the thallus by forming a distinctly conical mount with a deeply recessed apothecial disk and a thalline margin forming a progressively declining slope; typically formed in some species of Aspicilia (thus the name), but present also in other lichenized ascomycetes.

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Referenced by: Crateriform

Resources: Flora Australia Fungi