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perithecium

(mycology) An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.
Examples:

“All these steps take place in a specialized fruiting structure, the perithecium.”

“Since the perithecium grows out into the medium from the hymenium after nuclear pairing, this is ascohymenial development.”

“Inside the perithecium, the developing asci are immersed in maternal tissue.”

perithecia

“When the internal contents of these perithecia were inspected, only a few minute asci were observed.”

“Perithecia are always smaller than wild-type perithecia and a quarter of them contain only sterile paraphyses.”

“In these genera the sporidia, on maturity, may be observed blackening the matrix round the mouths of the perithecia.”

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