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Many ascomycetes produce their asci in cups, and in the case of the beech orange, the cups are the orange dimples of the golf ball.

That is, inside the ascus, a diploid fungal nucleus undergoes meiosis — or sexual, reductive cell division — to produce ascospores.

The conclusion of the epitaph is perplexing: it states that her husband dedicated it to her and her son's memory—under "the axe"—"Sub asci� dedicavit."

The ascus is thus one of the most sharply characterized structures among the fungi.

Exoascine�, a family of parasitic ascomycetous Fungi, distinguished by the absence of any definite fruit-body, the asci being produced in a layer on the surface of the host.