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Ascomycetes

noun
1.
Large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi.  Synonym: class Ascomycetes.


Ascomycete

noun
1.
Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.  Synonym: ascomycetous fungus.



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class Ascomycetes
Euascomycetes
subclass Euascomycetes


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"Ascomycetes" Quotes from Famous Books



... ASCOMYCETES.—Passing now to the Ascomycetes, which are especially rich in genera and species, we must first, and but superficially, allude to Tuberacei, an order of sporidiiferous fungi of subterranean habit, and rather peculiar structure.[u] In this order an external stratum of cells ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke


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