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thallus (noun) - In botany, a thallus refers to a plant body that is not differentiated into roots, stems, or leaves. It is typically found in algae, fungi, lichens, and some other plant groups
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- An undifferentiated plant body, such as in algae.
- Any plant body lacking vascular tissue.
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The thallus of a fungus is usually called a mycelium.
It is the widest layer of a heteromerous lichen thallus.
Only one thallus was found in the sample.
Of the different morphologies adopted by the thallus.
The largest thallus in a unit area is measured.
This may also be present on the thallus itself.
The whole thallus sometimes intricately branched throughout.
The apothecia are usually immersed in the thallus.
The erect to decumbent thallus is attached to a spongy base.
The thallus branches in a bifurcating pattern.
The growth of the thallus is by margins.
The thallus is crustose with deeply cracked areoles.
All living portions of a thallus are potentially capable of growth.
A fully formed lichen is called a thallus.
The thallus is nearly flat on the upper surface.
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The body or vegetative structure of a fungus is called a thallus.
The thallus is dorsiventrally differentiated.
It is composed of a thallus and a holdfast.
The thallus is made up of filaments of the fungus called hyphae.
The living plant was a thallus with short dichotomous branching.
Coccoid pedicels are in marginal spines emerging from the thallus.
The thallus is erect with regular nodes and internodes.
Old conceptacles do not become buried as the thallus grows.
Each cell of the thallus usually contains just one chloroplast.
The undifferentiated vegetative tissue of these organisms is called a thallus.
The thallus may be appressed to the substrate or may be loosely attached.
Both male and female gametes are formed on the one thallus.
Each individual thallus consists of a single cell with a single nucleus.
The specific epithet flavisparsa refers to the yellow squamules of the thallus.
The thallus is a sporophyte.
The grouping of the spores found in the thallus favors interpretation as a plant.
Thallus with large cavities formed by splitting of the internal tissue.
You can store the dried thallus in a paper bag in a dry room.
There may also be small slime pores on the underside of the thallus.
Details of the thallus morphogenesis and the formation of cephalodia in culture are shown.
The plant is able to change the color and shape of the thallus.
The term thallus is also commonly used to refer to the vegetative body of a lichen.
The asexual reproductive structures soredia and isidia are present on the thallus surface.
This lichen has a large thallus which may exceed one meter in width.
The thallus is different from those of either the fungus or alga growing separately.
Many species have a branching thallus that is more than two centimeters wide.
In some red algae it may take the form of a depression into the thallus.
The thallus is not always the part of the lichen that is most visually noticeable.
Physoderma species are characterized as having a both a monocentric thallus and an endobiotic polycentric thallus.
A light thallus color is associated with lower light conditions within the growing environment.
These fungal hyphae are usually what attach the thallus firmly to the substrate.
It forms calcium carbonate deposits within its cells which serve to strengthen the thallus.
The color of the greenish yellow thallus is derived from usnic acid in the cortex.
Continued growth leads to these granules being pushed upwards and out of the thallus surface.
An equally wide range of hydrated thallus temperatures is also evident under spring snowmelt conditions.
