Discinellaceae

Discinellaceae. Ekanayaka & K.D. Hyde.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

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

Taxa are saprobic on dead plant material (Magnes 1997). Ascomata are apothecial. Apothecia are discoid or hysterioid, sessile or sub-stipitate, closed when immature and opening by a split or radial fissures at maturity. The ectal excipulum is composed of cells of heavily melanized textura angularis. Paraphyses are apically slightly swollen, branched, hyaline and guttulate. Asci are 4–8- spored, cylindric-clavate, non-amyloid and arising from croziers. Ascospores are ellipsoid to fusiform, dictyo- to phragmosporous or muriform, thick-walled, smooth or warted and multiguttulate (Magnes 1997, Jaklitsch et al. 2016). Asexual morphs are not recorded.

Type genus: Discinella Boud., Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 1: 112 (1885)