Category: Pezizales

Belongs within: Pezizales. The Pezizaceae are a group of fungi saprobic on soil, dung or very rotten wood, producing relatively large fruiting bodies (Kirk et al. 2001). Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Ascomata large, apothecial or cleistothecial, formed from a single ascogonium or ascogonial coil, some shade of brown, violaceous, yellow etc. (without carotenoid pigments), usually sessile, flat or cupulate, without… Continue reading Pezizaceae

Belongs within: Ascomycota.Contains: Pezizaceae, Thecotheus, Sarcoscyphaceae, Sarcosomataceae, Pyronemataceae, Tuberaceae, Helvellaceae. The Pezizales are a clade of fungi including, among others, the morels and truffles. Members include saprobes on soil and very rotten wood, with some coprophilous and hypogeous, mycorrhizal members (Kirk et al. 2001). Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Operculate discomycetes; cup-fungi. Stroma absent. Ascomata apothecial or… Continue reading Pezizales

Belongs within: Pezizales. The Pyronemataceae are a group of fungi that are typically saprobic on soil or rotting wood, or mycorrhizal (Kirk et al. 2001). Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Ascomata apothecial or cleistothecial, sometimes on a well-developed hyphal mat, formed from clustered antheridia and ascogonia, small to large, discoid, cupulate or pulvinate, sessile or shortly stipitate, often brightly coloured… Continue reading Pyronemataceae

Belongs within: Pezizales. Thecotheus is a genus of fungi often found growing on animal dung. Characters (from Yao & Spooner 2000): Apothecia sessile, globose to subglobose or cylindrical, rarely pulvinate to lenticular at first, becoming cupulate to discoid, white, becoming grey, yellow, orange to brownish; ectal excipulum of textura angularis and medullary excipulum of textura… Continue reading Thecotheus