Ascomycota

Translingual

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
1. A taxonomic division within the kingdom Fungi.
2. 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
Category: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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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