calosphaeriaceous

adjective

Characteristic of fungi of the family Calosphaeriaceae.

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Meanings

adjectivecalosphaeriaceous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCharacteristic of fungi of the family Calosphaeriaceae.

    The calosphaeriaceous ascoma centrum is unique in the Sordariomycetes; it comprises persistent, sparsely branched, short or elongated ascogenous hyphae with minute cells formed from croziers in sympodial succession, asci in predominantly spicate arrangement and persistent paraphyses.

    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

Calosphaeriaceae + -ous

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