Apothecium Emerging - a photo on Flickriver

This is the earliest emerging form of the apothecium, which will eventually hold the fungal spores. Here there are probably less than 100 cells in the apothecium, which is approximately 10 microns in diameter. 100 microns = 1/10 mm, the smallest size visible with the naked eye.

This is part of a series of scanning electron micrographs I took for a study of development in a genus of lichens, Thysanothecium. These were published in:

Hammer, S. 2001. Development in Thysanothecium scutellatum (Cladoniaceae:
Ascomycotina). Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78: 75-83.

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Taken on: April 18, 2012

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