Helotiaceae 



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Tribe 3. Mollisieae. Apothecia entirely sessile, mostly 

 minute, sordid-gray to black, superficial, or erumpent, occurring 

 on living plants or more often on dead plant debris; asci cylindric 

 to clavatc, usually 8-spored; spores simple, or septate, hyaline, 

 or faintly colored ; paraphyses filiform to clavate. 



Occurring; on living plants. 

 Apothecia erumpent. 

 Spores simple. 

 Spores septate. 

 Apothecia superficial. 

 Occurring on dead plant debris. 

 Spores simple. 



Apothecia subdiscoid, superficial. 

 Seated on a subiculum. 

 Not seated on a subiculum. 



Spores hyaline; apothecia minute. 

 Spores ellipsoid, on wood\' tissues. 

 Spores globose, on ascomycetous 

 fungi. 

 Spores green; apothecia medium large, 

 up to 1 cm. 

 Apothecia, cupulate, often erumpent. 

 Spores with 3 or more septa. 



34. pseudopeziza. 



35. Fabr.a.e,\. 



36. Pest.vlopezia. 



37. Tapesia. 



38. mollisia. 



39. mollisiella. 



40. Catinella. 



41. Pyrenopeziza. 

 28. Belonium. 



Tribe 4. Ascotremelleae. Apothecia more or less gelatin- 

 ous and Tremella-like, ranging in size from 1 mm. to several cm., 

 stipitate, or sessile; spores from ellipsoid to filiform, hyaline, or 

 colored, simple, or septate; paraphyses filiform to clavate. 



Apothecia not on a stromatic base. 



Apothecia small and delicate, usually less than 1 

 cm. broad. 

 Erumpent, sessile or subsessile. 

 Superficial, stipitate. 

 Apothecia large, usually exceeding 1 cm. broad. 

 Spores simple. 

 Spores brown. 

 Spores hyaline. 

 Spores septate. 



Spores fusoid to fusiform. 

 Spores filiform or vermiform. 

 Apothecia on a stromatic base, large 4 cm. in diameter. 



Tribe 5. Lachnelleae. Apothecia ranging in size from 

 minute bodies less than 1 mm. in diameter to nearly 1 cm., 

 externally clothed with well developed hairs which are sometimes 

 closely adpressed but often presenting a wooly appearance; 

 hairs rigid or more often flexuous, thin-walled and often delicately 



