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hypersaprobic en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + saprobic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That develops in the decaying fruiting bodies of other fungi
    • Although the majority of calosphaeriaceous fungi are saprobic or hypersaprobic found in company with old stromata and ascomata of other ascomycetes on woody plants, recently some species have been isolated from wood of fruit trees showing canker symptoms, viz. 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: