PLECTOMYCETIDAE: asci typically thin-walled, globose to pyriform, evanescent; asci scattered; ascocarp a cleistothecium; with 5 orders: ascosphaeriales (nc), Elaphomycetales, Onygenales, Eurotiales, Microascales (nc)

• Eurotiales: ascospores dextrinoid; imperfect stages phialospores

• Look at cultures and locate the small, golden balls (or yellow balls) which are the cleitothecia. You will have to use a dissecting microscope.
• Mount three cleistothecia into Ammans. Make a semipermanent slide. Observe the cleitothecia wall and the very tiny asci and ascospores. These may be difficult to see since they are so small.
• Emericella nidulans: : the bright colored area is a cleistothecium that has been squashed.

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