Definition of Class pyrenomycetes

1. Noun. Class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora.


Literary usage of Class pyrenomycetes

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1. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"... was awarded a scholarship for the month of September for the purpose of studying the important collection of fungi of the class Pyrenomycetes, ..."

2. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1828)
"... and the large class Pyrenomycetes ; differing from the former (to which they approach the nearest) in their long duration, coriaceous substance, ..."

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