Definition of Order pezizales

1. Noun. Order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Pezizales

order Ostracodermi
order Palmales
order Pandanales
order Papaverales
order Parietales
order Pectinibranchia
order Pediculati
order Pedipalpi
order Pelecaniformes
order Pelycosauria
order Perciformes
order Percomorphi
order Perissodactyla
order Peronosporales
order Pezizales
order Phalangida
order Phallales
order Phasmatodea
order Phasmida
order Pholidota
order Picariae
order Piciformes
order Piperales
order Plantaginales
order Platyctenea
order Plecoptera
order Plectognathi
order Pleuronectiformes
order Plumbaginales

Literary usage of Order pezizales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"One of the common cup fungi, order Pezizales, with broadly opened ascocarps. Common upon rich humus soil and decaying wood. cup-like ascocarps that range in ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Apothecia and thallus leathery, waxy or carbonaceous, never gelatinous. order pezizales: sporocarp an apothecium. ..."

3. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1901)
"... order pezizales-CUP FUNGI The Females or cup fungi, which are typically disk or cup- shape, comprise an extensive group, and vary in size from forms ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The most conspicuous of these cup fungi, called Discomycetes, are in the order Pezizales, and grow in the rich humus of moist woods. They are fleshy forms, ..."

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