Malvipezia Van Vooren, gen. nov.
MycoBank number: MB 835816; Index Fungorum number: IF 835816; Facesoffungi number: FoF14399;
Description: Ascomata epigeous, cupulate or discoid, sessile, with pale mauve, purple or violet colours. Flesh without latex. Asci operculate, 8-spored, with crozier, wall diffusely amyloid in an iodine solution except at the top where the reaction is intense and forms a ring (WTR type). Paraphyses containing a brown vacuolar pigment. Ascospores biguttulate, ornamented with isolated, rounded warts, more rarely with irregular and coalescent warts. Ectal excipulum of textura globulosa with medium-sized to large cells. Species saprobic.
Type-species: Peziza howsei Roze & Boud.
Etymology: Referring to the plant genus Malva for its mauve-purple colours, and from Greek πέζις (pezis) meaning “fungus without stipe”.
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