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Pseudothecium vs Pycnidium - What's the difference?

pseudothecium | pycnidium |

As nouns the difference between pseudothecium and pycnidium

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 pycnidium is in certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

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.

    • pycnidium

    English

    Noun

    (pycnidia)
  • In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.
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