NOUN | plant | class Pyrenomycetes, Pyrenomycetes | class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium |
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Meaning | Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora. | |
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Synonym | Pyrenomycetes | |
Member of | Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina | A large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes |
Members | Erysiphales, order Erysiphales | saprophytic and parasitic fungi that live on plants |
Hypocreales, order Hypocreales | Used in some classifications for the family Hypocreaceae | |
Sphaeriales, order Sphaeriales | large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles | |
Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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