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'''apical apparatus''' ([[Category:Noun]][[:Category:Noun|noun]], [[Category:Ascus term]][[:Category:Ascus term|ascus term]], ''pl.'' apical apparatus or apical apparatuses) – the functional wall layers of the [[tholus]]; responsible for spore discharge during [[ascus dehiscence]], actively and forcibly ejecting spores through discharge mechanisms or passively releasing them through the [[axial canal]] and [[ascus pore]]. In some [[asci]] the [[apical]] apparatus is strongly reduced and no longer functional and these asci then typically release their spores by disintegration (''see'' [[prototunicate]], [[verrucaroid]]). ''This is:'' [[Category:Part of ascus]][[:Category:Part of ascus|part of ascus]].

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