Ascmycota
Common Name: Sac Fungi
The defiging feature of Ascomycetes is the production of sexual spores in sac like asci. Most ascomycetes bear their sexual stages in fruiting bodies, ascocarps.
Examples: Yeast, Red Bread mold (Neurospora), Penicillum, Aspergillus, Cup Fungi(Sarcoscypha, Morchella), Conidiospores
When sace fungi reproduce asexually they produce condiopsores on upright hyphae known as conidiophores.
Yeast differ from most other fungi because they are not composed of hyphae. They from an ascus during sexual reproduction. An ascus is a finger-like sac that develops during sexual reproduction, Usually yeasts produce asexually by mitosis, cell division or budding.
Cup Fungi produce an ascocarp(fruiting body) in which sacklike asci develop. The fruiting body contains a mass of sterile hyphae intertwined with reproductive hyphae. Parts of cup fungi are labeled on the picture below.
