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Similar to a cleistothecium, a gymnothecium is a completely enclosed structure containing globose or pear-shaped, deliquescent asci. However, unlike the cleistothecium, the peridial wall of a gymnothecium consists of a loosely woven "tuft" of hyphae, often ornamented with elaborate coils or spines.
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are usually cylindrical in shape, borne on a stipe (stalk), released from a pore, developed from the inner wall of the perithecium and arise from a basal plectenchyma-centrum. Examples are members of
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important for the taxonomic classification of the fungus. Apothecia can be relatively large and fleshy, whereas the others are microscopic—about the size of flecks of ground pepper.
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An apothecium (plural: apothecia) is a wide, open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped fruit body. It is sessile and fleshy. The structure of the apothecium chiefly consists of three parts:
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is indicated in pink. Note the cylindrical asci in the two left types (apothecium, peri-/pseudothecium), and the globose asci in the two right types (cleistothecium, gymnothecium).
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Sometimes the perithecia are "free" (individually visible from the outside), but in many species they are embedded in a dense sterile tissue of haploid cells called a
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A cleistothecium (plural: cleistothecia) is a globose, completely closed fruit body with no special opening to the outside. The ascomatal wall is called
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This is similar to a perithecium, but the asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and they are
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is divided into the types described below (apothecium, cleistothecium, etc.) and this character
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The ascocarp is classified according to its placement (in ways not fundamental to the basic
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Diagram of a pseudothecium. Eight ascospores (green) are typically present in each ascus.
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Diagram of an apothecium showing sterile tissues as well as developing and mature asci
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of apothecium, peri-/pseudothecium and cleisto-/gymnothecium (from left to right).
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or arising in tufts from the basal region of ascocarps as in
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Perithecia are flask shaped structures opening by a pore or
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and typically consists of densely interwoven hyphae or
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cells. It may be covered with hyphal outgrowth called
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phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven
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The ascocarp of a morel contains numerous apothecia.

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