Belongs within: Sordariomyceta.
The Thelebolaceae is a family of minute dung-inhabiting fungi.
Characters (from Cannon & Kirk 2007): Stromata absent. Ascomata minute, more or less globose or pulvinate, at least initially cleistothecial, the excipulum hyaline, poorly developed, more or less glabrous. Interascal tissue poorly developed, composed of simple paraphyses. Asci more or less ellipsoidal, often multispored, more or less persistent, opening with a rather irregular vertical split. Ascospores usually small, hyaline, smooth or with ornamentation formed as an elaboration of an initially homogenous secondary wall layer. Anamorphs rarely encountered, where present hyphomycetous, Sporothrix-like.
<==Thelebolaceae [Thelebolales] |--AntarctomycesEB03 |--Coprobolus Cain & Kimbr. 1970KC01 |--Coprotiella Jeng & Krug 1976EB03, KC01 |--Coprotus Korf & Kimbr. 1967EB03, KC01 [incl. Leporina Velen. 1947KC01] |--Dennisiopsis Subram. & Chandrash. 1977EB03, KC01 |--Leptokalpion Brumm. 1977KC01 |--Mycoarctium Jain & Cain 1973EB03, KC01 |--Ochotrichobolus Kimbr. & Korf. 1983EB03, KC01 |--Pseudascozonus Brumm. 1985EB03, KC01 |--Ramgea Brumm. 1992EB03, KC01 |--Trichobolus (Sacc.) Kimbr. & Cain 1967EB03, KC01 |--Ascozonus (Renny) Hansen 1876 [incl. Streptotheca Vuill. 1887]KC01 | `--A. woolhopensisE99 |--Caccobius Kimbr. 1967KC01 | `--C. minusculusE99 `--Thelebolus Tode 1790 (see below for synonymy)KC01 |--T. caninusSS09 |--T. microsporusSS09 `--T. stercoreus [incl. Nectria myriospora, Chilonectria myriospora]RS99
Thelebolus Tode 1790 [incl. Lasiothelebolus Kimbr. & Luck-Allen 1974, Pezizella Karst. 1872 non Fuckel 1870, Pezizula Karst. 1871, Ryparobius Boud. 1869, Telebolus Lindau 1905]KC01
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
Cannon, P. F., & P. M. Kirk. 2007. Fungal Families of the World. CABI.
[E99] Eriksson, O. E. (ed.) 1999. Notes on ascomycete systematics. Nos 2440–2755. Myconet 2: 1–41.
[EB03] Eriksson, O. E., H. O. Barah, R. S. Currah, K. Hansen, C. P. Kurtzman, G. Rambold & T. Laessøe (eds.) 2003. Outline of Ascomycota—2003. Myconet 9: 1–89.
[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi 9th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[RS99] Rossman, A. Y., G. J. Samuels, C. T. Rogerson & R. Lowen. 1999. Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes). Studies in Mycology 42: 1–248.
[SS09] Schoch, C. L., G.-H. Sung, F. López-Giráldez, J. P. Townsend, J. Miadlikowska, V. Hofstetter, B. Robbertse, P. B. Matheny, F. Kauff, Z. Wang, C. Gueidan, R. M. Andrie, K. Trippe, L. M. Ciufetti, A. Wynns, E. Fraker, B. P. Hodkinson, G. Bonito, J. Z. Groenewald, M. Arzanlou, G. S. de Hoog, P. W. Crous, D. Hewitt, D. H. Pfister, K. Peterson, M. Gryzenhout, M. J. Wingfield, A. Aptroot, S.-O. Suh, M. Blackwell, D. M. Hillis, G. W. Griffith, L. A. Castlebury, A. Y. Rossman, H. T. Lumbsch, R. Lücking, B. Büdel, A. Rauhut, P. Diederich, D. Ertz, D. M. Geiser, K. Hosaka, P. Inderbitzin, J. Kohlmeyer, B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, L. Mostert, K. O’Donnell, H. Sipman, J. D. Rogers, R. A. Shoemaker, J. Sugiyama, R. C. Summerbell, W. Untereiner, P. R. Johnston, S. Stenroos, A. Zuccaro, P. S. Dyer, P. D. Crittenden, M. S. Cole, K. Hansen, J. M. Trappe, R. Yahr, F. Lutzoni & J. W. Spatafora. 2009. The Ascomycota tree of life: a phylum-wide phylogeny clarifies the origin and evolution of fundamental reproductive and ecological traits. Systematic Biology 58 (2): 224–239.