comb. form of SOREDI-UM, used in a few terms, as Soredial a., of the nature of, pertaining to, a soredium; Sorediate a., bearing or characterized by the prevalence of soredia; Soredi(i)ferous a., bearing soredia; caused by producing soredia; Sorediform a., = next; Soredioid a., having the appearance, form or character of a soredium or soredia.
1882. Vines, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 328. *Soredial branches, as they are termed, are thus produced.
1881. Jrnl. Bot., X. 115. The *sorediate form of Pertusaria velata.
1829. Loudon, Encycl. Plants (1836), 949. Ramalina. Plant cartilaginous,… somewhat shrubby, mostly *sorediferous.
1856. Lindsay, Pop. Hist. Brit. Lichens, 42. The disc of an apothecium is sometimes rendered abortive by sorediiferous degradation.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1174/2. Sorediformis, having the appearance of soredia...; *sorediform.
1857. Berkeley, Cryptog. Botany, § 459. 418. Many other forms are assumed by the crusts of Lichens;… the *soredioid from the protrusion of groups of gonidia.
