Sarcosomataceae
Sarcosomataceae Kobayasi
Facesoffungi number: FoF 04259
The taxa are saprophytic on rotting wood, litter, and soil. The family is world-wide in its distribution. There are relatively few neotropical species recognized at the present time; most species are known from Europe, North America, Mexico, Australasia, and Madagascar. They produce apothecia that are externally brown or blackish, and of a leathery or tough-gelatinous consistency when fresh. The hymenium may vary from black to brown, yellow–brown, or even whitish. The asci are thick-walled, usually long-cylindrical, and do not stain blue in Melzer’s (iodine) reagent. The ascospores are aseptate, hyaline, and
may be globose, ellipsoid, or suballantoid, smooth, or with transverse (rarely longitudinal) furrows, or with spore ornamentation staining in heated cotton blue dye (cyanophilic verruculae). The ascospores of most species of the Sarcosomataceae germinate readily, and cultures may be obtained on a variety of media. Colonies are usually white or pale tan at first, with flat, black stromata often formed later (Paden and Tylutki 1968, 1969). Gremmen (1949) made the first telemorph/anamorph connection in this family. Asexual morphs are hyphomycetous. Conidiophores are erect, septate and diffusely branched. Conidia
born at the ends and the sides of the branches. Conidia are coloured, ovoid to ellipsoid (Sumstine 1914; Paden 1983). Recent studies are those of Carbone and Agnello (2013), Carbone et al. (2013b), Peric´ et al. (2014) and Desjardin et al. (2015).
Recent Genus
RutstroemiaXeropilidium
Ionomidotis
Recent Species
Encoelia furfuraceaRutstroemia tiliacea
Xeropilidium dennisii