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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Structure of these bodies shown by Moeller is entirely carbonous, hollow, each forming a single, carbonous perithecium.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by C. G. Lloyd
Pseudospores either solitary or concatenate, produced on the tips of generally short threads, which are either naked or contained in a perithecium, rarely compacted into a gelatinous mass, at length producing minute spores = Coniomycetes.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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
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
The central cell becomes the single ascus, which is characteristic of the species, and the layer which surrounds it constitutes the inner wall of its perithecium.
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
They are, indeed, the perithecia of a sphæriaceous fungus of the genus Nectria, and the gelatinous nucleus contains the fructification.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Epichloë, which clothes the sheaths and halms of grasses with its stroma, at first snowy white and later ochre-yellow as the perithecia form, is another example.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
Several of the species of Hysterium also possess spermogonia, notably H. Fraxini, which may be distinguished from the ascigerous perithecia with which they are associated by their smaller size and flask-like shape.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In these genera the sporidia, on maturity, may be observed blackening the matrix round the mouths of the perithecia.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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