250 CLASS ASCOMYCETEAE 



Asci 8-spored, apothecia fleshy, humicolous. 



Humarina 

 Asci 8-spored, apothecia tough. Pseudombrophila 



Asci more than 8-spored, bilabiate. Streptotheca 

 Asci more than 8-spored, with circular operculum. 

 With small spores. Ryparobius 



With large spores. Thecotheus 



Apothecia small- to medium-sized, conspicuously setose or hairy. 



Tribe Lachneeae 

 Apothecia partially to entirely buried in the ground. 



Sepultaria 

 Apothecia superficial on substratum, on soil, wood, humus, or dung. 

 Densely clothed with brick-red hairs. Perrotia 

 Clothed with hyaline or brown hairs. 



Hairs not septate. Lasiobolus 



Hairs septate, usually erect or bristle-like. 



Patella 

 Apothecia medium to large, strongly unequal-sided or split on one side. 



Tribe Otideeae 

 Springing in clusters from a buried sclerotium. 



Wynnea 

 Usually isolated, not springing from a sclerotium. 

 Spores striate with light and dark bands. 



PhiUipsia 

 Spores not striate. ScodeUina 



Apothecia medium to large, symmetrical, stipitate, densely hairy or 

 tomentose, usually tough or leathery. 



Tribe Sarcoscypheae 

 Hymenium bright yellow to scarlet, spores striate. 



Cookeina 

 Hymenium as above, spores not striate. Plectania 

 Hymenium gray or brown, apothecium externally black or brown. 

 With a thick gelatinous hypothecium. Bulgaria 

 Hypothecium not gelatinous. 



Opening more or less stellately, attached to sticks, tough. 



Vrnula 

 Not opening stellately, on the ground, fleshy to tough. 



Paxina 

 Apothecia medium to large, sessile to short stipitate, not densely hairy 

 or tomentose, fleshy and brittle. 



Tribe Pezizeae 

 Apothecium buried in the ground when young. 



Sarcosphaera 

 Apothecium superficial. 



Medium-sized, "shaped like an acorn-cup, with a short slender stem" 

 (but see reference on page 225 to (7. cacabus (Fr.) Sacc.) 



(rcopyxis 

 Medium-sized to large, sessile or with a stout stem-like base. 



Ascospores apiculate, apothecium attached by numerous root-like 



processes. Rhizina 



Ascospores apiculate, apothecia centrally attached. 



Discina 

 Ascospores not apiculate. Peziza 



