Fungalpedia – Note 1805, Stictidaceae
Stictidaceae Fr.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Ostropales, Ostropomycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
The family Stictidaceae was introduced by Fries (1849). Taxa are parasitic, lichenized or lichenicolous and characterized by crustose thalli with chlorococcoid photobiont, ascomata apothecial to perithecial, paraphyses filiform unbranched, asci non-amyloid, cylindrical and ascospores ellipsoid to filiform and sometimes form many by phragmospores (Jaklitsch et al. 2016).
Type genus: Stictis Pers., Observ. mycol. (Lipsiae) 2: 73 (1800) [1799].
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