cleistocarpn.
/ˈklʌɪstəʊkɑːp/ Botany.
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.
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ascus1830
thecospore1858
macrocyst1874
ascogonium1875
ascospore1875
cleistocarp1887
1887 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. K. Goebel Outl. Classif. 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 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi 492/1 Ascocarp, in Ascomycetes: sporocarp producing asci and ascospores; its three kinds are apothecium or discocarp, perithecium or pyrenocarp, and cleistocarp.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 54/2 Ascocarp, the fructification of the Ascomycetes, containing asci and ascospores; it may be a cleistocarp, an apothecium, or a perithecium.
Derivatives
cleistoˈcarpous adj. having a closed capsule, having a capsule without an operculum.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > [adjective] > of or having thecospores
ascigerous1829
thecosporous1879
asciferous1882
ascogenous1882
thecospored1882
cleistocarpous1884
thecosporal1891
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 73/2 The Phascaceæ are termed ‘cleistocarpous’ in contradistinction to the ‘stegocarpous’ Mosses.
1887 W. Hillhouse tr. E. Strasburger Handbk. Pract. Bot. 261 The section of cleistocarpous Ascomycetes.
1955 E. V. Watson Brit. Mosses & Liverworts 128 Other cleistocarpous mosses..show a very different leaf shape, and cell structure.
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