Translingual

Aleuria aurantia
(subphylum Pezizomycotina)

Proper noun

Ascomycota

1. Those fungi that produce spores in a microscopic sporangium called an ascus
   1. A taxonomic division within the kingdom Fungi.
   2. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Dikarya.

Synonyms

• Ascomycetes

Hypernyms

• (phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom

Hyponyms

• (division): Pezizomycotina, Saccharomycotina, Taphrinomycotina (subphyla)

References

• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521