pseudothecium

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What does pseudothecium mean?

An ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them.

Where does pseudothecium come from?

From pseudo- + thecium.

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