Ascobolaceae
Ascobolus spp. growing on cow dung
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Ascobolaceae
Boud. ex Sacc. (1984)
Type genus
Ascobolus
Pers. (1972)
Genera

Ascobolus
Ascophanus
Cleistoiodophanus
Cubonia
Saccobolus
Thecotheus

The Ascobolaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pezizales. A 2008 estimate places 6 genera and 129 species in the family.[1]

Description

Most fruiting bodies of the disk-like ascobolaceae examined, are round and without conidium. All members of this family of fungi have a saprobiontic lifestyle, feeding on decaying and dead matter.[2]

Taxonomy

Examples

Ascobolus michaudii and Ascobolus albidus live as decomposers on the feces of large herbivore and omnivore mammals and depend on their survival, due to the specialized habitat they inhabit.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. ↑ Paul F. Cannon, Paul M. Kirk (2007). MacDonald DW (ed.). Fungal families of the world (2nd ed.). CABI Europe. pp. 20–26. ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5.
  3. ↑ Wijayawardene, Nalin N.; Hyde, Kevin N.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (29 January 2018). "Outline of Ascomycota: 2017". Fungal Diversity. 88 (2): 167–263. doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0394-8. S2CID 7485476.
  4. 1 2 "Some Interesting and Protected Fungal Species of the Northern Velebit National Park". Retrieved 16 November 2021.


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