Mazaedium

mazaedium (pl. mazaedia; alternative spelling: sl. macaedium, pl. macaedia) – a powdery mass of ascospores, disintegrating ascus walls and paraphyses covering the disk of an apothecium and typically observed in calicioid Physciaceae and Mycocaliciales.

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