English > Ascomycota: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi. |
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| Synonyms | subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina |
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| Member of | Eumycota, division Eumycota | true fungi |
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| Members | Ascomycetes, class Ascomycetes | large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota |
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| Helotiales, order Helotiales | Order of fungi having asci in a disk-shaped to goblet-shaped apothecium |
| Hemiascomycetes, class Hemiascomycetes | Class of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed |
| Plectomycetes, class Plectomycetes | Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration) |
| Pyrenomycetes, class Pyrenomycetes | Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium |
| Tuberales, order Tuberales | small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps |
| ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus | Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus |
| sac fungus | Any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus |
| Broader | division | (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum |
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| Catalan | Ascomycota |
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