Medeolariceae
Medeolariaceae Korf
Facesoffungi number: FoF 05925
Taxa are plant pathogenic. Ascomata are apothecial and characterized by irregularly organized, reduced apothecia erumpent in host tissue. The excipulum is reduced or unclear. Paraphyses are filiform, simple, flexuous, septate below and brownish. Asci are 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, non-amyloid, no organized opening and opening by irregularly rupturing. Ascospores are fusiform to naviculate and with a dark outer wall layer with striations (LoBuglio & Pfister 2010). Asexual morphs are not recorded.
Notes – Medeolariaceae was a phylogenetically unstable family which included a single plant pathogenic genus. These fungus causes stem lesions and gall-like deformations on stems of herbaceous plants, in autumn (Pfister & LoBuglio 2013).
Recent Genus
RutstroemiaXeropilidium
Ionomidotis
Recent Species
Encoelia furfuraceaRutstroemia tiliacea
Xeropilidium dennisii