- A
cephalodium (pl.
cephalodia) is a
small gall-like
structure found in some lichens. They
occur only in
lichens which contain both
cyanobacterial and green...
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species of nitrogen-fixing
cyanobacteria (contained
within dark,
blistered cephalodia), and a
species of
green alga.
First described by Carl
Linnaeus in 1753...
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characterised by its
squamulose to
almost foliose thallus, con****uous
cephalodia containing the
cyanobacterium Scytonema, and
distinctive ascus structure...
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isidia are
present on the
thallus surface.
Minute (0.5–1.5 mm in diameter)
cephalodia—pockets of cyanobacteria—are
often present on the
lower surface of the...
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cyanobacteria may be held on the
upper or
lower surface in
small pustules called cephalodia.
Pruinia is a
whitish coating on top of an
upper surface. An epinecral...
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thallus called cephalodia,
which can take many forms.
Apart from
gaining energy through photosynthesis, the
cyanobacteria which live in
cephalodia may perform...
- ("shrub") and -phora ("carrier"), and
refers to the
finely branched,
shrubby cephalodia that are "carried" by the chlorobiont. The
lichen occurs in Australia...
- wide. It is green,
becoming pale as it dries. The
thallus is
dotted with
cephalodia,
which contains one of the two symbionts, a
species of Nostoc. The other...
- alga
photobiont (Coccomyxa) and the
cyanobacteria is
restricted to
warty cephalodia on the
upper or
lower surface of the lichen.
Species of
Nephroma have...
- bifrons,
meaning "two-faced",
refers to the well-developed and
large cephalodia that
occur with the
green algal photobiont. The
lichen occurs in the Philippines...
