The perfect stage or sexual state of the fungus involved in producing meiotic or sexual spores.
the perfect stage of a fungi
The stage characterized by the production of asci/ascospores, basidia/basidiospores, teliospores, or other basidium-bearing organs. ( 15)
the sexual stage in the life cycle of a fungus that has sexual and asexual stages (see anamorph).
A form based on a sexual state.