Fungalpedia – Note 1700, Ascocorticiaceae

Ascocorticiaceae. J. Schröt.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Taxa are saprobic or plant pathogenic. Ascomata are apothecial. Apothecia are effuse, irregular in shape, whitish-greyish or ochraceous and pruinose film. The excipulum is strongly reduced. Paraphyses are simple and unbranched. Asci are 4–16-spored, cylindric-clavate, inamyloid and with or without croziers. Ascospores are cylindric-ellipsoid or vermiform, 0–11-septate, hyaline and eguttulate (Jülich & de Vries 1982, Oberwinkler et al. 1967, Jaklitsch et al. 2016). Asexual morphs are hyphomycetous, conidiophores are brown, hyaline and bristle-like, conidiogenesis is sympodial and conidia are subglobose, hyaline and small and arranged in a spike (Jaklitsch et al. 2016).

Type genus: Ascocorticium Bref., Unters. Gesammtgeb. Mykol. (Leipzig) 9: 145 (1891)