Podium

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Cladonia fimbriata with funnel-shaped or trumpet-shaped pedestals

As Podetium (plural: Podetien ) is called stalk-like differentiation of the thallus of some (shrubby) lichen species (from the Greek. Pous, Gen. podos, "foot").

Podiums represent upright, stem-like or funnel-like (sometimes also branched) carrier organs with several fruiting bodies ( apothecia ) at their tips . If these carrier organs are mostly sterile, they are also referred to as pseudopodetia. Podetia occur, for example, in the lichen genera Cladonia or Baeomyces .

literature

  • Georg Masuch: Biology of Lichen , Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg / Wiesbaden (UTB f. Science), 1993, ISBN 3-8252-1546-6 .