| The ostiole is blocked by elongate sterile cells, known generically as paraphyses. |
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| In other words, the ascocarp is closed but for an ostiole at the distal end. |
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| Each species of fig is fertilised by its own species of minuscule fig wasp, which wriggles into the juicy interior through a tiny hole in the base of the fig known as the ostiole. |
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| Pycnidia are immersed, spherical to subglobose, 200-300 µm in diameter, with multicellular walls and a circular protruding papillate ostiole, 30-40 µm in diameter. |
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| Oral rim ducts also present on submedian areas of thorax, on the midline of abdomen and behind each posterior ostiole. |
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