Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Pezizomycetes
Subclassis: Pezizomycetidae
Ordo: Pezizales
Familia: Ascobolaceae
Genera: Ascobolus – Cubonia – Saccobolus – Thecotheus
Name
Ascobolaceae Boud. ex Sacc., 1884
References
Saccardo, P.A. 1884. Conspectus generum discomycetum hucusque congitorum. Botanisches Centralblatt. 18:213-256
Links
Index Fungorum: IF 80480
Vernacular names
日本語: スイライカビ科
русский: Аскоболовые
he 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
Ascobolaceae with 4 different genera[3]
Ascobolus
Cubonia
Saccobolus
Thecotheus
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
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.
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.
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.
"Some Interesting and Protected Fungal Species of the Northern Velebit National Park". Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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