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perithecia

perithecia is the plural of perithecium.

Meaning of perithecium

Noun

perithecium (plural perithecia)

  1. An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.
    • The Erysiphacae may possibly have given rise to the Laboulbeniales, the only other group in which a single daughter cell of the oogonium is responsible for the asci, and perhaps to the lower Pyrenomycetes also; these, like the Erysiphaceae, have regularly arranged asci, and in Chaetomium fimete the...2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54

Questions about perithecia

What is perithecia the plural of?
Perithecia is the plural of perithecium.

Words near perithecia in the dictionary

  1. perithallial
  2. perithallus
  3. perithecal
  4. perithece
  5. peritheces
  6. perithecia
  7. perithecial
  8. peritheciate
  9. perithecioid
  10. perithecium
  11. perithelial

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