relating to a mode of ascocarp growth in which a perithecium develops within a cushioning hollow of cells (the stroma) which is nested in a depression of the hymenium (a locule). The ascocarps produced by ascolocular growth do not grow into the medium, and the asci are usually bitunicate. Compare ascohymenial.

Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of the Loculoascomycetes, the loculate Ascomycetes. ( 17)