Fungalpedia – Note 3245, Orbiliaceae

 

Orbiliaceae Nannf.

Citation when using this data: Zhang SN et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Notes: Members of Orbiliaceae are characterized by having small, usually light-colored (rarely dark), and semi-translucent apothecia, frequently swollen paraphysis apices, with asci and ascospores which usually contain KOH-soluble spore bodies (SBs), and a refractive vacuolar organelle inside the ascospores which is only visible in living spores. The family has been assigned to the order Helotiales in the traditional classification system, but molecular evidence supports placement of Orbiliaceae in Orbiliales, Orbiliomycetes (Eriksson et al. 2003; Shao et al. 2018).

Type genus: Orbilia Fr.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Orbiliaceae.

 

References

Eriksson OE, Baral HO, Currah RS, Hansen K et al. 2003 – Notes on ascomycete systematics Nos 3580–3623. Myconet 9:91–103.

Shao Y, Baral HO, Ou X, Wu H et al. 2018 – New species and records of orbiliaceous fungi from Georgia, USA. Mycol Prog 17:1225–1235.

 

Entry by

Sheng-Nan Zhang, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, P.R. China., Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand., Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.

 

Published online 18 September 2026

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