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  • Print publication year: 2008
  • Online publication date: September 2012

4 - Thallus morphology and anatomy

    • By B. Büdel, Department of General Botany Department of Biology Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 13 University of Kaiserslautern D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany, C. Scheidegger, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL Zürcherstr. 111 CH-8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
  • Edited by Thomas H. Nash, III, Arizona State University
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511790478.005
  • pp 40-68
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Symbiosis is now widely accepted as a source of evolutionary innovation (Margulis and Fester 1991) that has stimulated an enormous morphological radiation in ascomycetes. Vegetative structures have especially developed to a complexity that is not reached elsewhere in the fungal kingdom (Honegger 1991b). Lichen morphology and anatomy are now understood as being highly adapted to constraints imposed by the environment on the mutualistic symbiosis, where the mycobiont is the exhabitant and the cyanobacterial or green-algal photobiont is the inhabitant (Hawksworth 1988b). A very wide range of different thallus structures have been described and a complete outline of lichen morphology is not the scope of this chapter. However, detailed reviews are given by Henssen and Jahns (1973) and Jahns (1988). Common mycological terms also used in lichenology are not always explained here. Readers are referred to recent mycological textbooks, to Hawksworth et al. (1983), or to a glossary of a recent lichen flora. Irrespective of lichen growth form, it must function as a photosynthetically active unit in a manner that allows positive net photosynthesis and subsequently sufficient growth rates. This implies that the photobiont has to be supplied with just the right amount of light, even in the deep shade of rain forests or under fully exposed conditions of deserts. Carbon dioxide (CO2) diffusion to the photobiont needs to occur readily, even under fully hydrated conditions. Water loss should be adapted to the specific environment: minimized in dry environments, and maximized in very wet environments.

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