Pezizales

Chorioactidaceae

Chorioactidaceae Pfister
Facesoffungi number: FoF 04204
Chorioactidaceae taxa are saprobic on soil or dead plant materials in temperate and subtropical regions.
Apothecia are inrolled when immature and open at maturity with a small mouth, sometimes splitting in a star-like fashion. They are sessile, substipitate or stipitate with an elongate, buried stalk. Asci are long, arising from a narrow hyphal base or pedicel often abruptly expanded above the base and sometimes lobed or forked with a terminal or subterminal operculum. Ascospores are uniseriate, ellipsoid or fusoid. Asexual morphs are sometimes recorded as Conoplea and Verticicladium species. The asexual morph of Chorioactis is Kumanasamuha. Asexual morphs aremostly hyphomycetous (Imazeki and Otani 1975; Peterson et al. 2004; Berthet 1964; Gremmen 1949; Hughes 1951; Nagao et al. 2009). Recent studies on Chorioactidaceae are by Carbone et al. (2013a, b) and Agnello et al. (2013).

 

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