Fungalpedia – Note 1784, Pezizellaceae
Pezizellaceae Velen.
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Classification: Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Taxa are saprobic on dead plant material. Ascomata are apothecial. Apothecia are discoid to cupulate, sessile or stipitate. The margins are smooth or covered by hairs. Hairs are hyaline, cylindrical and septate or aseptate. The ectal excipulum is composed of cells of textura angularis, prismatica or oblita and medullary excipulum is composed of cells of textura intricata. Paraphyses are filiform or lanceolate and septate or aseptate. Asci are 4–8-spored, amyloid or non-amyloid, cylindric-clavate, sometimes arising from croziers. Ascospores are ellipsoid, allantoid to fusoid, 0–3-septate and guttulate (Baral & Rämä 2015, Carpenter & Dumont 1978, Seifert and Carpenter 1987, Jaklitsch et al. 2016). Asexual morphs are hyphomycetous, sporodochial and phialidic. Conidia are fusoid to cylindrical and 0–1-septate (Kowalski & Bartnik 2010, Koukol 2011, Jaklitsch et al. 2016, Crous et al. 2016, Guatimosim et al. 2016, Hernandez-Restrepo et al. 2017, Hosoya & Zhao 2016, Spooren 2014).
Type genus: Pezizella Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23-24: 299 (1870) [1869-70].