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| exciple (a saucer-shaped rim around the hymenium of various lichens formed from the hypothecium [proper exciple] or from the upper layer of the thallus [thalloid exciple]); excipulum (the outer part of the fructification [the collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores] of most lichens) | |||