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- proper noun Former name of
Ascomycota , division ofFungi .
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The so-called higher fungi, Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes, also have low diversity.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Botryodiplodia theobromae and some Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes are causative agents.
Chapter 11 1987
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In the second group, Ascomycetes, or “Spore sac fungi,” the spores are produced in delicate sacs called asci.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Of the larger _Ascomycetes_, the cup fungi (_Discomycetes_) may be taken as types.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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All of the common _Ascomycetes_ belong to the second division, and have the spore sacs contained in special structures called spore fruits, that may reach a diameter of several centimetres in a few cases, though ordinarily much smaller.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Ascomycetes, or “Spore sac fungi,” where the spores are produced in delicate sacs called asci.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Our concept of the fungi often ends with a few fleshy Basidiomycetes (agarics, boletes, puff balls) or even fewer Ascomycetes (morels and truffles).
Huitlacoche 1919
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[F] The sub-class Ascomycetes includes the morels, helvellas, cup fungi, etc., and many microscopic forms, in which the spores are borne inside a club-shaped body, the ascus.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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_Ascomycetes_ are comparatively rare, and very few species indeed of
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The observation that heated or long boiled pieces of gum lose their contagious property made it most probable that a living organism was concerned in the contagions; and he then found that only those pieces of the gum conveyed contagion in which, whether with or without bacteria, there were spores of a relatively highly organized fungus, belonging to the class of Ascomycetes; and that these spores, inserted by themselves under the bark, produced the same pathological changes as did the pieces of gum.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
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