THE ORDERS OF FUNGI 39 



40. Hymenium lacking or indistinct 42 



42. Glebal chambers at maturity not separating from 



peridium nor from each other; gleba powdery and 



dry Order Sclerodermatales 



42. Glebal chambers enclosed within peridioles which serve 



as disseminules Order Nidulariales 



Class Fungi Imperfecti 



43. Conidia produced in globose, cupulate, or hysteroid pycnidia 



Order Sphaeropsidales (Phomales, Phyllostictales) 

 43. Conidia not formed in pycnidia 



44. Fructification consisting of a plane stromatic layer of closely 

 compacted conidiophores, an acervulus, usually innate 



Order Melanconiales 

 44. Fructification consisting of separate conidiophores or loosely 

 compacted conidiophores, forming synnemata or sporodochia 



Order Moniliales (Hyphomycetes) 

 43. Conidia lacking Mycelia Sterila 



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