(Bot.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
Rhizine
rhizine
[′rī‚zēn] (botany) The rhizoid of a lichen.
Rhizine
a fascicle of fungal threads originating from the lower surface of the thallus in foliaceous lichens. Rhizines serve primarily for attachment to the substrate.