Thallinocarp

thallinocarp (noun, pl. thallinocarps;ascocarp term) – a type of fruiting body exclusively found in Lichinella (incl. Gonohymenia); a indistinct swelling concolorous with thallus, the "disc" rough or verrucose, the hymenium continuous or discontinuous but covered in patches by a continuous layer of sterile thalline plectenchyma; occasionally the "hymenium" separated into small, "partial hymenia".