| However, Neolecta lacks paraphyses, and the croziers do not develop until the ascus is formed. |
| In the latter species there are only two spores in an ascus. |
| Other species contain linear sporidia, which are often the length of the ascus, and may either be simple or septate. |
| As the spores grow, fluid pressure builds up in the ascus until the operculum bursts open and the ascospores are blown out into the environment. |
| This operculum may be the more readily seen when the ascus is coloured by a drop of tincture of iodine. |
| The term sporidia he limits to spores produced or enclosed in an ascus, as in the ascomycete. |
