Ascomycota

Translingual edit

Aleuria aurantia

Etymology edit

From New Latin ascus, from Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós, “a hide, a wineskin”) +‎ -mycota.

Proper noun edit

Ascomycota

Those fungi that produce spores in a microscopic sporangium called an ascus
1. A taxonomic division within the kingdom Fungi.
2. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Dikarya.^[1]

Synonyms edit

Ascomycetes

Hypernyms edit

(phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom^[1]

Hyponyms edit

(phylum): Pezizomycotina, Saccharomycotina, Taphrinomycotina (subphyla)

References edit

Ascomycota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ascomycota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Ascomycota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Ascomycota at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Ascomycota at Encyclopedia of Life
Ascomycota at the Tree of Life Web Project

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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