Rhizines

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Peltigera neopolydactyla with whitish rhizines

Rhizine (plural: rhizines ) is a term from lichen science ( lichenology ).

This is understood to mean organs arising on the underside of the bed of many leaf or shrub lichen species , which are mostly filamentous and can be branched from simple to clump-like. Rhizines are made up of hyphae strands and usually serve as adhesive fibers to attach them to a base (e.g. bark). Rhizines can arise from the lower bark, the medullary layer of the lichen bed, or both layers.

literature

  • Georg Masuch: Biology of Lichen , Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg / Wiesbaden (UTB f. Science), 1993, p. 51/52, ISBN 3-8252-1546-6 .
  • Herder Lexicon of Biology. Spectrum academ. Verlag, 1994. Vol. 7, p. 143. ISBN 3-86025-156-2 .