HYPOCREACEAE 



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globoid, sometimes beaked, fleshy, waxy or waxy-membranous, bright colored, usually 

 reddish, more rarely blue, yellow or whitish, never carbonous, opening by a rou.id 

 pore or ostiole. single, cespitose or composite in a stroma, asci and spores as in 

 Sphaeriaceae. 



Allantosporae 

 ij: 778 



■Spores i-celled, obtuse, curved-oblong, hyaline or olivascent 

 One genus Allantonectria 17: 778 



Hyalosporae 



2:447, 9:941. n:354, 14:621, 16:559, i/:7~8 

 Spores i-celled, hyaline 



I. Perithecia separate 



1. Perithecia covered 



a. Asci 8-spored 



b. Asci many-spored 



2. Perithecia superficial or nearly so 



a. Perithecia beaked ; spores ciliate 



b. Perithecia not beaked 



(1) Spores smooth 



(2) Spores ciliate or spiny 



(a) Spores i-ciliate at each end 



(b) Spores spiny, hemispheric 



II. Perithecia cespitose 



1. Asci 8-spored 



2. Asci many-spored 



III. Perithecia in a subicle or stroma 

 1. Perithecia in a subicle, i. e., a cobwebby or cottony stroma 



Hyponectria 2: 455 

 Thelocarpum 9: 946 



Eleutheromyces 2: 455 



Nectriella 2: 448 



Heteronectria 14: 624 

 Cleistosoma A: 195, 9: 943 



Lisiella 9: 945 

 Chilonectria 2:453 



Peckiella 9: 944 

 Byssonectria 2:456 



Balzania 16: 561 



a. Paraphyses lacking, fungicole 



b. Paraphyses numerous, not fungicole 

 Perithecia in a definite stroma 



a. Stroma effuse, globose, verruciform or linear 

 (1) Asci 8-spored 



(a) Perithecia circinate, valsiform 



(b) Perithecia not circinate, mostly irregular 



x. Spores globose Battarina 2:533 



y. Spores ovate to oblong 



(x) Stroma globose or verruciform 

 Stroma globose, smooth, dark 



Pseudotrype 16:561 

 Stroma verruciform, hairy, red 



Selinia 2: 457 

 Stroma lirelliform, clear 

 Stroma effuse, phyllogenous 



m. 



11. 



(y) 



(z) 



Monographus 2:457 



(2) Asci many-spored : phyllogenous 

 b. Stroma elongate, erect 



Polystigma 2:458 

 Moelleriella 14:626 



