perithecium
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perithecia
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perithecia
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Origin of perithecium
From New Latin, dating back to 1825–35; see origin at peri-, thecium
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The spores are produced on slender threads springing from the inner wall of the perithecium, and, when mature, are expelled from an orifice at the apex.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In this order an external stratum of cells forms a kind of perithecium, which is more or less developed in different genera.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
These asci are variously shaped bodies and are known in different orders by different names, such as ascoma, apothecium, perithecium, and receptacle.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
A perithecium, or cell excavated in the stroma which fulfils the functions of a perithecium, is always present.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The antheridium remains for a long time recognizable without undergoing any essential modification, but the dark colour of the perithecium soon hides it from the observer’s eye.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In ascomycetes that build their asci inside flask-like structures called perithecia or pseudothecia, the asci take turns snaking to the little opening, poking themselves out, and firing.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2012
The Erysiphe which ultimately appears on the same mycelium consists of globose perithecia, externally furnished with thread-like appendages, and internally with asci containing sporidia.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
They have a solid carbonous interior with the perithecia imbedded near the surface.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by C. G. Lloyd
Perisporiacei.—Except in the perithecia rupturing irregularly, and not dehiscing by a pore, some of the genera in this group differ little in structure from the Sphæriacei.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The sexual form is recognized by the appearance of microscopic, black, short-beaked fruiting structures or perithecia that are filled with sticky ascospores.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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