**4. Major morphological characters of bamboo ascomycetes**

The morphological characters are important in fungal identifications. Most fungi produce their fruiting bodies on hyphae with two phases of reproductions (sexual and asexual reproduction). Thus, when an ascomycetous fungus bears its fruiting body by sexual reproduction, it usually produces an ascoma (**Figure 3**), and on the other hand, it produces either a conidioma or hyphomycetous fruiting structures. The major morphological characters of sexual morph are the type of ascomata, hamathecium, asci, and ascospores, and those of asexual morph are conidiomata, conidiophores, and conidiogenous cells [63, 64].
