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What is an apothecium?

What is an apothecium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (lichenology) The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.
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Influence of four herbicides on carpogenic germination and apothecium development of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
Nylander called the apothecium pale within, but forms with red-brown hypothecia are admitted by later writers.
Piece of thallus of Parmelia conspersa, with section through an apothecium.
Cyclocarpineae, apothecium usually circular, no capillitium.
In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.

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