plectomycetes
Noun
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Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration) (synset 113047289)
is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more ordersmember holonym: aspergillales, eurotiales, order aspergillales, order eurotiales - order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered in a hymeniumbelongs to: ascomycota, ascomycotina, subdivision ascomycota, subdivision ascomycotina - a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungisame as: class plectomycetes
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