HyperDic: subdivision_ascomycota

English > 1 sense of the expression subdivision Ascomycota:
NOUNplantsubdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotinaa large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes
English > subdivision Ascomycota: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningA 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.
SynonymsAscomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina
Member ofEumycota, division Eumycotatrue fungi
MembersAscomycetes, class Ascomyceteslarge class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota
Helotiales, order HelotialesOrder of fungi having asci in a disk-shaped to goblet-shaped apothecium
Hemiascomycetes, class HemiascomycetesClass of fungi in which no ascocarps are formed
Plectomycetes, class PlectomycetesClass of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration)
Pyrenomycetes, class PyrenomycetesClass of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium
Tuberales, order Tuberalessmall order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps
ascomycete, ascomycetous fungusAny fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus
sac fungusAny of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus
Broaderdivision(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
CatalanAscomycota

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