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Perithecium vs Pseudothecium - What's the difference?

perithecium | pseudothecium |

As nouns the difference between pseudothecium and perithecium

is that pseudothecium is an ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them while perithecium is an ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.

perithecium

English

Noun

(perithecia)
  • An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.

    • pseudothecium

    English

    Noun

    (pseudothecia)
  • An ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them.