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- noun Plural form of
perithecium .
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Examples
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The sexual form is recognized by the appearance of microscopic, black, short-beaked fruiting structures or perithecia that are filled with sticky ascospores.
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The perithecia are produced on the mycelial mats beneath the loose and sometimes cracked bark of diseased oaks.
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