Fungalpedia – Note 1791, Pyronemataceae
Pyronemataceae Corda
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae,, Pezizomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Taxa are mainly saprobic on soil or dead plant materials. Some form mycorrhizal associations with vascular plants or parasitic on bryophytes. Ascomata are epigeous apothecial and perithecial or hypogeous cleistothecial and truffles. The genus Geopora includes both discomycete taxa and truffles. Filicupula, Mycogalopsis and Octosporella form perithecia (Yao and Spooner 1996). Asci are inamyloid. Ascospores vary in shape and ornamentation (Perry et al. 2007). Asexual morphs are hyphomycetous. Conidiophores are hyaline, septate and usually dichotomously branched at the apex with swollen ampullae. Conidia produced blastically. Conidia are subglobose to elliptical aseptate, and pale brown at maturity (Egger 1984). Recent studies are those of Trappe et al. (2010), Sun and Guo (2010), Peric and Peric (2011), Hosoya et al. (2011), Olariaga and Hansen (2011), Peric´ (2012), Doveri (2012), Gyosheva et al. (2012a, b), Stielow et al. (2013), Carbone et al. (2013a), Beug et al. (2014)
Type genus: Pyronema Carus, Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 17(1): 375 (1834).