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Definition of Order Pezizales
1. Noun. Order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Order
Group relationships: Discomycetes, Subclass Discomycetes
Member holonyms: Family Pezizaceae, Pezizaceae, Family Sarcoscyphaceae, Sarcoscyphaceae, Family Helvellaceae, Helvellaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Pezizales
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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