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cleistocarp Bot.|ˈklaɪstəʊkɑːp| Also clistocarp. [f. Gr. κλειστός closed + καρπός fruit.] In mosses and fungi, an ascogonium whose asci and spores develop within a completely closed capsule, from which the spores escape by the rupture of the sac. So cleistoˈcarpous a., having a closed capsule, having a capsule without an operculum.
1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 73/2 The Phascaceæ are termed ‘cleistocarpous’ in contradistinction to the ‘stegocarpous’ Mosses. 1887W. Hillhouse tr. Strasburger's Bot. 261 The section of cleistocarpous Ascomycetes. 1887Garnsey & Balfour tr. Goebel's Outl. Classification & Special Morphol. Plants 477/1 Cleistocarp, ascocarp in which the asci and ascospores are formed inside a completely closed envelope from which the ascospores escape by its final rupture. 1887,1940[see ascocarp]. 1955E. V. Watson Brit. Mosses & Liverworts 128 Other cleistocarpous mosses..show a very different leaf shape, and cell structure. |