Apothecia are variable in their density along margins, occasionally solitary, more often aggregate, the individual apothecium generally appears as if pinched outwards from the branch margin on a short broad lobe.
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The apothecium has a layer of exposed spore-producing cells called "'asci "'( singular ascus ), and is usually a different color from the thallus tissue.
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The orange disc ( a deeper colour than the thallus ) surface is concave initially but matures to convex; the apothecium rim also narrows giving the effect that the convex disc is spilling over it.
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This fruit body remains subterranean for most of the year but breaks the surface in the spring to form a cream-coloured cup ( apothecium ) up to 7 cm across and 5 cm tall.
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When the exciple has a color similar to colored thallus tissue the apothecium or lichen is called "'lecanorine "', meaning similar to members of the genus " Lecanora ".
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This fruiting body remains subterranean for most of the year but breaks the surface in the spring to form a creamy-grey cup ( apothecium ) up to 4.5 cm across and 3 cm tall.
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The three most common spore body types being raised discs called "'apothecia "'( singular : apothecium ), bottle-like cups with a small hole at the top called "'perithecia "'( singular : perithecium ), and "'pycnidia "'( singular : pycnidium ), shaped like perithecia but without asci ( an ascus is the structure that contains and releases the sexual spores in fungi of the Ascomycota ).
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According to the most recent classification of Ascomycota, the Orbiliaceae contain only two ( teleomorph ) genera, the " Hyalorbilia " and the " Orbilia " . " Hyalorbilia " is distinguished from " Orbilia " by having asci without a stalk that arise from croziers, a hemispherical to broadly conical, thin-walled apex, asci and paraphyses in a gelatinous matrix, and an ectal excipulum ( the outer surface of a cup-like apothecium ) of horizontal textura prismatica.
