Excipulum

The excipulum , more rarely called its own housing, is a structure around the fruiting bodies of lichens and fungi .

It is a sterile hyphae tissue and in the lichens it surrounds the fruiting body that is developed as an apothecium . It can be divided into two layers: the inner parathecium (excipulum proprium), adjacent to the hymenium , in which the hyphae are arranged parallel to the asci ; and the outer amphithecium (Excipulum thallinum), in which the hyphae are radial.

However, the terminology is not used consistently by the various authors.

literature

• Gerhard Wagenitz : Dictionary of botany. The terms in their historical context. 2nd, expanded edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8274-1398-2 .