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'''thalline collar''' ([[Category:Noun]][[:Category:Noun|noun]], ''pl.'' thalline collars; [[Category:Ascocarp term]][[:Category:Ascocarp term|ascocarp term]]) – a ''[[morphological]]'' term referring to an indistinctly differentiated rim of irregularly aggregated [[thalline]] material more or less loosely associated with the [[proper margin]] of a [[lecideine]] [[apothecium]], resembling a [[thalline exciple]], but much more irregular and lacking a distinctly differentiated [[anatomy]] of a true thalline exciple; present for example in ''Buellia'' (''Diplotomma'') ''alboatra''. ''This is:'' [[Category:Part of ascocarp]][[:Category:Part of ascocarp|part of ascocarp]].

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