pyrenomycetes

1. Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium;
   Includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora (synset 113048830)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • erysiphales, order erysiphales - saprophytic and parasitic fungi that live on plants
   • order sphaeriales, sphaeriales - large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders
   • hypocreales, order hypocreales - used in some classifications for the family Hypocreaceae
   belongs 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 Fungi
   same as: class pyrenomycetes

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