Ascomycota
Translingual
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Aleuria aurantia
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
- A taxonomic division within the kingdom Fungi.
- A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Dikarya.[1]
Synonyms
- Ascomycetes
Hypernyms
- (phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom[1]
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Pezizomycotina, Saccharomycotina, Taphrinomycotina (subphyla)
References
Ascomycota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ascomycota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ascomycota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Ascomycota at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Ascomycota at Encyclopedia of Life
- Ascomycota at the Tree of Life Web Project
- 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