Ascocorticium

Ascocorticium
Systematics
Department : Ascomycota mushrooms Subdivision : Real ascent mushrooms (Pezizomycotina) Class : Leotiomycetes Order : Helotials Family : Ascocorticiaceae Genre : Ascocorticium
Scientific name of the  family
Ascocorticiaceae
J. Schröt.
Scientific name of the  genus
Ascocorticium
Bref.

Ascocorticium forms the only monophyletic genus of the family Ascocorticiaceae within the order of the Helotiales .

features

The fruiting bodies of the Ascocorticiaceae are protruding (effus), they form a blurred white or pink palisade. A peridium is hardly formed. The layer between the tubes consists of irregular and undifferentiated hyphae , between which the tubes lie. The tubes themselves have an inamyloid apical ring (which cannot be stained with iodine) . The unseptated ascospores are hyaline and small. Minor crop forms are unknown. There is no stroma .

ecology

The Ascocorticiaceae are widespread in temperate areas. The few species live saprotrophically, especially on the bark of Nacktsamern .

Systematics

Only the following types are known:

• Ascocorticium anomalum
• Ascocorticium effusum
• Ascocorticium vermisporum

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literature

• Paul F. Cannon, Paul M. Kirk: Fungal families of the world . CABI Europe, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (UK) 2007, ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5 , pp. 21 ( available online ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Index Fungorum Search

Web links

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