Hysterium pulicare – Facesoffungi number: FoF 00006
Hysterium pulicare Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 85 (1794) This is type species of genus Hysterium. Hysterium pulicare Pers. is a poorly known saprobic species. It occurs on living trees bark or dead wood of numerous species of angiosperms and gymnosperms. It produces unique ascocarps (sexual structures), called hysterothecia, which are darkly pigmented and carbonaceous. The hysterothecium [...]