cephalodium
cephalodium
[‚sef·ə′lō·dē·əm] (botany)
A small wart-like growth containing nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria that is found on or in the thallus of some lichens with photobionts.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
--Capituliform inflorescence (or capitate inflorescence or
cephalodium): indeterminate inflorescence, similar to a capitulum or head, due to a pronounced shortening of the internodes on the main axis and branches of different order.
Also known as "head," "
cephalodium," and "calathidium" (Weberling, 1989).
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