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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) A heterogenous phylum of fungi which lack a sexual phase, or of which the sexual phase is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. It is not considered a natural phylum, and is also called the
Deuteromycota . The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales. It includes the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, which reproduce asexually by means of conidia.
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- noun large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known
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hernesheir commented on the word fungi imperfecti
The Deuteromycota - an artificial taxonomic group of fungi whose true affinities are unknown because the reproductive cycle that would give a clue as to classification has never been observed.
September 16, 2009