A pycnidium (plural pycnidia) is an asexual fruiting body produced by mitosporic fungi, for instance in the order Sphaeropsidales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes)...

of conidiomata, distinguished by their form, are: pycnidia (singular: pycnidium), which are flask-shaped, and acervuli (singular: acervulus), which have...

top called perithecia (singular: perithecium), and pycnidia (singular: pycnidium), shaped like perithecia but without asci (an ascus is the structure that...

in asexual sporocarps with different characteristics (e.g. acervulus, pycnidium, sporodochium). Some species of ascomycetes form their structures within...

Lichenoconium reichlingii Diederich 1986. Pycnidium with dark brown conidia. Photo: Paul Diederich....

conidia-bearing structures such as a synnema, a sporodochium, an acervulus, or a pycnidium. conidiophore A specialized hypha bearing or consisting of conidiogenous...

may grow anywhere on the pycnidium. Pycnidiospores are hyaline, oblong to ovoid, biguttulate, and sessile in the pycnidium; they ooze from ruptures or...

morphological study of this group. It was in this work he introduced the term pycnidium to describe the asexual fruiting body found in many species of fungi....

that it is a polycyclic disease, it can asexually produce conidia in a pycnidium which continually inoculates new hosts throughout the growing season,...

were made by Julius von Flotow (e.g. epithecium), Edmond Tulasne (e.g pycnidium), and William Nylander (e.g. pseudocyphella, thecium). Gustav Wilhelm...