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ascogenous

ascogenous adjective: that grows from the ascogonium of a fungus.

Adjective

ascogenous (not comparable)

  1. That grows from the ascogonium of a fungus
    • The calosphaeriaceous ascoma centrum is unique in the Sordariomycetes; it comprises persistent, sparsely branched, short or elongated ascogenous hyphae with minute cells formed from croziers in sympodial succession, asci in predominantly spicate arrangement and persistent paraphyses.2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”...

Questions about ascogenous

What does ascogenous mean?
Ascogenous means that grows from the ascogonium of a fungus.
What part of speech is ascogenous?
Ascogenous is an adjective.

Words near ascogenous in the dictionary

  1. ascocyst
  2. ascocysts
  3. ascofuranone
  4. ascogenesis
  5. ascogenic
  6. ascogenous
  7. ascogeny
  8. ascogonia
  9. ascogonial
  10. ascogonium
  11. ascoid

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