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Pseudothecium Uncommon

Origin: Greek prefix pseudo-

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An ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them.

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