Henssen, A/ Titze, A 1990: Auriculora byssomorpha, a tropical lichen with a remarkable developmental morphology. - Botanica Acta103: 131-139. [RLL List # 142 / Rec.# 8299] Keywords: AURICULORA/ MORPHOLOGY/ ONTOGENY/ BRAZIL
Abstract: 32 figures (6 in color). ["The ontogeny of the apothecia is characterized by the repeated formation of new hymenia within the subhymenial layer. The development of the first hymenium is gymnocarpous but the de novo differentiation of new hymenia, each beneath the next older disintegrating one, gives rise to a peculiar type of secondary hemiangiocarpy. Portions of the decaying hymenia and adjacent subhymenial tissue frequently remain fastened to the apothecial margin and disc in the shape of ear-like appendages or as superimposed layers."]