Botany 359 First Laboratory Examination Name______________________________

There are 25 features listed on this side of the page

You are to show 20 features on this list. You have only one chance to show each feature.

All features past 20 will count one point each.

  1. ____Apothecia hypogeous
  2. ____Apothecia in well developed stromata.
  3. ____Apothecia stipitate and either brain shaped, wrinkled, or saddle shaped and with an operculate ascus
  4. ____Apothecia stipitate and either capitate, spathulate or club-shaped and with an inoperuclate ascus
  5. ____Apothecia stipitate; hymenium present in pits in the pointed cap.
  6. ____Apothecia variable in shape but without hairs on the surface and without dark hyphae in the walls.
  7. ____Apothecium imbedded in the substrate
  8. ____Apothecium that has an inoperculate ascus
  9. ____Apothecium that has an operculate ascus
  10. ____Apothecium with walls composed of dark-colored hyphae.
  11. ____Ascocarp epigeous
  12. ____Cleistothecium with appendages
  13. ____Cleistothecium without appendages
  14. ____Feature caused by a fungus with no sporocarp and with hyphae (name the feature___________)
  15. ____Hairs on the surface of a perithecium
  16. ____Hymenium
  17. ____Hysterothecium.
  18. ____Mazaedium
  19. ____Perithecia dark-colored
  20. ____Perithecia are light-colored
  21. ____Perithecium in a erumpent stroma
  22. ____Pseudothecium
  23. ____Sclerotium
  24. ____Stroma
  25. ____Subiculum

There are 25 microscopic features. 15 items are required.

You are to show two features that involve ascomycetes with no ascocarp

You are to show two features that involve ascomycetes with a cleistothecium

You are to show four features that involve ascomycetes with a perithecium

You are to show two features that involve ascomycetes with a bitunicate ascus

You are to show three features that involve ascomycetes with an apothecium and an inoperculate ascus.

You are to show two features that involve ascomycetes with an apothercium and an operculate ascus

You have two chances per feature

You can show more than one feature on the same slide.

All features past 15 will count 1 pt each (if from a prepared slide) and 2 pts each if you make a freshly prepared slide.
  1. ____; ____amerospore
  2. ____; ____ascospores allantoid
  3. ____; ____ascospores typically dark colored and with a slit, elliptical in shape; you need not show the slit but you need to show ascospores in a fungus that would have a slit)
  4. ____; ____ascus apex amyloid in a fungus with a perithecium (freshly prepared)
  5. ____; ____Ascus apex amyloid in a fungus with an inoperculate acus (freshly prepared)
  6. ____; ____Ascus apex amyloid in a fungus with an operculate ascus (freshly prepared)
  7. ____; ____Ascus bilabiate, not blueing in Melzer’s (you need not show the bilabiate condition, but you should show an ascus in a fungus that has a bilabiate ascus apex)
  8. ____; ____ascus bitunicate (freshly prepared)
  9. ____; ____ascus clavate (freshly prepared)
  10. ____; ____ascus cylindric
  11. ____; ____Ascus from dikaryotic hyphae in an ascomycete without an ascocarp
  12. ____; ____Ascus in an organism whose thallus is a single cell
  13. ____; ____Ascus operculate (you need only show an ascus that has an operculum; if you show the operculum, you will get an extra point)
  14. ____; ____ascus prototunicate
  15. ____; ____ascus round and from or in a completely enclosed ascocarp
  16. ____; ____ascus saccate (freshly prepared)
  17. ____; ____ascus unitunicate
  18. ____; ____budding
  19. ____; ____dictyspore
  20. ____; ____didymospore
  21. ____; ____globose ascus in a hypogeous ascocarp
  22. ____; ____paraphyses, curved at the apex. (freshly prepared) OR ascospores ornamented
  23. ____; ____periphyses (extra point) or at least the area in which periphyses will be produced.
  24. ____; ____phragmospore
  25. ____; ____scolecospore