Cleistocarp

cleistocarp

[′klī·stə‚kärp]

(mycology)

cleistothecium

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Cleistocarp

 

the closed fruiting body of certain ascomycetous fungi (order Plectascales and the powdery mildews, family Erysiphaceae).

Cleistocarps are spherical and have an envelope without any openings called a peridium. The asci and spores are freed after this envelope bursts or is destroyed. Cleistocarps are sometimes called cleistothecia.

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