thecium
nounEtymology From New Latin thēcium, from Ancient Greek θήκιον (thḗkion), diminutive of θήκη (thḗkē, “sheath”).
- The hymenium, or thecium, is generated endogenously within the hyphal layer.1952, Frederick Lyle Wynd, The Fungi, translation of original by Ernst Albert Gäumann, page 218:
- Derived terms
- amphithecium, apothecium, cleistothecium, epithecium, hamathecium, hypothecium, hysterothecium, parathecium, perithecium, pseudothecium
- Related terms
- theca, Thecia