Instead of a thallus, the lichen-forming fungus Botryolepraria produces a three-dimensional aerial mycelium from which its unicellular green algal symbionts (Pseudostichococcus) hang like fruit from a trellis.
Construction of the lichenized aerial mycelium in #Botryolepraria (Verrucariales; Eurotiomycetes; Ascomycota): A somatic structure unique among #fungi
New #AJB research by William Sanders, Maurizio Hernández, Sergio Pérez-Ortega, Asunción de los Ríos
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #lichen
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