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Definition of Ascoma
1. Noun. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
Definition of Ascoma
1. Noun. An ascocarp. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascoma
Literary usage of Ascoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"ascoma more or less completely closed at first, opening free at maturity, and plane,
... ascoma open from the first, normally clavate or convex, or pitted, ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"C. pandani: section of ascoma. FIG. 7.—C. pandani: a, asci and paraphyses; b,
spores. FIG. 8.—C. crispa: section of ascoma. FIG. 9. ..."
3. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1904)
"The asci or spore-sacs are formed on the interior of the fungus, the warty truffle
itself being called an ascoma, as it contains the asci. ..."
4. Annales Mycologici (1904)
"In a majority of the specimens it is somewhere near uniform in diameter, which
is */3 to 3/8 that of the ascoma. It may enlarge either upward or downward. ..."
5. Annales Mycologici (1908)
"I. ascoma fleshy-gelatinous, asci very narrow, spores filiform: plants aquatic
... ascoma fleshy, erect, stipitate, clavate, the hymenium covering only the ..."
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