cephalodium
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editcephalodium (plural cephalodia)
- A small gall-like structure found in some lichens that contain cyanobacterial symbionts.
- 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166:
- The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.