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What is a thallus?

What is a thallus? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) An undifferentiated plant body, such as in algae.
  2. (botany) Any plant body lacking vascular tissue.
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Ceratopteris spores, like fucoid zygotes, divide unequally to produce a small rhizoid cell and a larger cell that develops into the thallus.
The receptacle remains on the thallus surface until the receptacle's sporophytes approach maturity.
In addition to the algae in lichens, bacteria are invariably associated with the lichen thallus.
A section through the thallus of Nephroma helvetica, showing the cortices, upper and lower, and the mycelial medulla within.
The plant form of the thallophytes is an undifferentiated thallus lacking true roots, stems, and leaves.
Isidia are extensions of the surface of the thallus and may be cylindrical, globular, brachiate or lobula.

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