A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Podetium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. podetio; [obsol. podetum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. podeto sec. Lindley]: “the stalk-like elevations of the thallus of some lichens, on which the shields [i.e. apothecia] are supported. Also the stalk that bears the spore-cases [i.e. thecae] of Urn-mosses, and the receptacle of such plants as Marchantia” (Lindley); “1. a stalk-like elevation rising from the thallus and supporting an apothecium in some Lichens; 2. Also applied to the support of the capitulum of Marchantia; and 3. the seta of mosses” (Jackson); “a stalk on which the ascocarp is borne in various lichens (as of the genus Cladonia); an organ or body resembling a stalk (as the seta of a moss)’ (WIII) [> pod- [> pous,-podos (s.m.III) ‘foot’ + -etium (origin unknown) (WIII); perhaps dim. of -etum,-i (s.n.II), q.v., “2. a site of multiple organs on a plant”]; see seta,-ae (s.f.I).

Fibula,-ae (s.f.I), q.v., abl. sg. fibula: (in Diatoms) a cylindrical podetium, terminated by apothecia.

Podeta (obsol.; neut. pl. of podetum,-i (s.n.II)) is given by Lindley as a synonym = podetium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. podetio, nom. & acc. pl. podetia.

- optime tamen hic locum habeat ob podetia foramina praebentia et apothecia minuta marginata (Nyl.), however it may hold this place best due to the podetia displaying foramina and the apothecia very small, bordered.

- [lichen] thallus osseo-albidus simplex (raro tantum unum alterumve emittens), e podetiis consistens scyphophoris scyphis e centro repetito-proliferis (Nyl.), the thallus bone-white, simple [i.e. unbranched] (rarely sending out only one or two), consisting of scyphophoric [i.e. scyphus bearing] podetia, with the scyphi repeatedly proliferating from the center.

- podetia altitudinis 12-14 centimetrorum, e singulis superpositis (vel quasi merithallis) altitudinis circa 10-12 millimetrorum, crassitudinis 1-2 millimetrorum constantia (Nyl.), the podetia of the altitude of 12-14 centimeters, composed of superimposed individuals (or as if internodes) around 10-12 mm in height, 1-2 mm. in thickness

. - in sylvaticis rupestribus vel montanis Europae borealis et mediae, podetiis passim hiascenti-fissis vel apertis optime distincta; accedens versus rangiferinam (Nyl.), on wooded cliffs or mountainous places of northern and middle Europe best separated by the podetia everywhere gaping-split or open; approaching toward rangiferina.

- [lichen] podetia crassitie circa 1 millim. (Nyl.), the podetia around 1 millimeter in thickness.

-[Pilophoron; lichen] cephalodia saepe tuberculosa testacea vel testaceo-fuscescentia podetiis sparse adnata (Nyl.) the sephalodia often tuberculose, brownish-red or becoming blackish-brown, here and there adnate to the podetia.

- [lichen] thallus efoliolosus, podetiis stramineis glabris strictiusculis (Nyl.), the thallus not foliolose, with the podetia straw-colored, glabrous, somewhat straight-up.

- [lichen] thallus basi squamoso-foliolosus pallidus, foliolis lobato-incisis difformibus adscendentibus, podetiis glabris congestis strictis (Nyl.), the thallus at the base scaley-foliolose, pale, with the leaflets lobate-incised, of two forms, ascending, with the podetia glabrous, congested, straight up.

- [lichen] podetiis parce ramosis (ramis semper strictiusculis, ut in typo) (Nyl.), with the podetia sparingly branched (with the branches always nearly straight up, as in the type).