Ascomycota

Translingual

Aleuria aurantia
(subphylum Pezizomycotina)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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

Ascomycetes

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

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

References

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

1 2 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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