Pyropyxidaceae M. Zeng, Q. Zhao & K.D. Hyde, fam. nov.
MycoBank number: MB; Index Fungorum number: IF; Facesoffunginumber: FoF 12609;
Saprobic on dead wood or soil, endophytic on Quercus liaotungensis, Ulmus macrocarpa and Ceratodon purpureus. Sexual morph: Ascomata apothecial, scattered to gregarious, sessile to stipitate, pink, purple, olivaceous to brown, often with short hairs. Hairs hyphoid, or moniliform, from ectal excipulum, hyaline to purple or brown, simple or branched, septate. Hymenium pale, pink, purple to olivaceous, brown. Ectal excipulum composed of textura angularis to textura globulosa. Medullary excipulum composed of textura intricata. Paraphyses filiform, pigmented, septate, straight or branched, often with slightly enlarged apex. Asci 8−spored, operculate, subcylindrical to cylindrical, inamyloid. Ascospores globose to subglobosa, fusiform to ellipsoid, uniseriate, eguttulate or guttulate, smooth or with ornamentations. Asexual morph: Conidiophores mononematous, micronematous, smooth or with ornamentation, unbranched or terminal fertile cells dichotomously branched, hyaline to pale brown. Conidiogenous cells polyblastic, integrated, terminal or intercalary, inflated, denticulate, hyaline to pale brown. Conidia solitary, aseptate, verrucose to capitate, straight or slight curved, subglobose, ellipsoidal, obovoid, clavate to subcylindrical, sometimes with short denticles, hyaline to pale brown.
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