Cordieritidaceae
Cordieritidaceae, Facesoffungi number: FoF 05854
Taxa are saprobic on dead plant material or lichenicolous (Pérez-Ortega et al. 2011, Kocourková & Knudsen 2009, Baral & Marson 2001, Ertz & Diederich 2006, Huhtinen & Spooner 2005, Pärtel et al. 2017). Ascomata are apothecial. Apothecia are discoid, cupulate, funnel-shaped or ear-shaped, sessile or stipitate and sometimes arising from common base or from branched stipes and with a dark stroma. The margins and flanks are sometimes covered with hairs. Hairs are cylindrical, straight or curved with tapered and hooked apices, sometimes septate, hyaline or brownish and smooth or thick-walled. The ectal excipulum is composed of pigmented cells of textura globulosa-angularis or textura prismatica-intricata and medullary excipulum is composed of cells of textura prismatica-intricata or textura epidermoidea. Paraphyses are cylindrical or clavate, sometimes lanceolate, apically slightly swollen and gelatinized and septate. Asci are 8- spored, non-amyloid and arising from croziers. Ascospores are ellipsoid to fusoid or rod-shaped, straight or sometimes curved, hyaline or olivaceous-brown and 0–3-septate (Diederich et al. 2010, Matocec et al. 2005, Pérez-Ortega et al. 2011, Kocourková & Knudsen 2009, Baral & Marson 2001, Ertz & Diederich 2006, Jaklitsch et al. 2016, Huhtinen & Spooner 2005, Pärtel et al. 2017, Diederich & Coppins 2014, Etayo et al. 2015, Diederich & Etayo 2000, 2004). Asexual morphs are coelomycetous, stromatic, multilocular, phialidic and holoblastic. Conidia are ellipsoid or triangular and hyaline to dark brown (Jaklitsch et al. 2016, Diederich & Coppins 2014).
Recent Genus
RutstroemiaXeropilidium
Ionomidotis
Recent Species
Encoelia furfuraceaRutstroemia tiliacea
Xeropilidium dennisii