Meanings
adjectiveascomatal (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyRelating to an ascoma.
Hand sections of the ascomatal wall were studied in 3% KOH. All measurements were made in Melzer’s reagent.
2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
By surface analysis, ascomata + -al
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