Stictis Pers.
Index Fungorum number: IF5236; MycoBank number: MB 5236
Stictis species are distributed in tropical and temperate regions (Joshi et al. 2012). These species occur as saprophytes or lichenized fungi on dead twigs, leaves, fern fronds, grasses, and herbaceous stems (Wedin et al. 2004; Li and Hou 2016). Sexual morph of Stictis is characterized by the orbicular ascoma opening by a pore, periphysoids in apothecial margins that extend down the whole length, a hymenium that splits from the margin when dry with a thick crystalline layer in the ascoma margin and a non-parasitic niche. Phylogenetic analyses in Lu et al. (2021) and Thiyagaraja et al. (2021) based on combined LSU, ITS and mtSSU genes
confirmed that Stictis species are polyphyletic and the phylogeny of this study also confirm it. There are 357 epithets listed in Index Fungorum (2023).
Species