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Clavicipitales

An order of the *Pyrenomycetes whose members, which number about 175 species in 7 genera, produce small perithecia contained in the rounded heads of *stromata. Each ascus contains eight threadlike asci. The order includes the ergot fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

 
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