Calycina Nees ex Gray
Index Fungorum number: IF 770; MycoBank number: MB 770
Calycina is typified by C. herbarum (Pers.) Gray which is formerly known as Peziza herbarum (Persoon 1794; Gray 1821; Dumont 1972). Calycina is characterized by the sexual morph with bright-coloured apothecia, gelatinized ectal excipulum, filiform paraphyses, cylindrical asci, and hyaline, fusoid to ellipsoid ascoscpores (Baral and Marson 2005; Baral and Rämä 2015; Suija and Motiejūnaitė 2017; Lestari and Chethana 2022). Species in Calycina are saprobes on dead plant materials (Dumont 1972; Quijada and BeltránTejera 2017), pathogens in living plants (Crous et al. 2019) and lichenicolous species (Suija and Motiejūnaitė 2017).
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