Diatrype disciformis (Hoffm.) Fr.
Diatrype disciformis (Hoffm.) Fr.
Diatrype disciformis (Hoffm.) Fr.
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Tree of Life http://tolweb.org/Pezizomycotina/29296 is up-to-date and DNA sequence-based.<br />
We are still in the Pezizomycotina, but in new classes today. Your Text, The Fifth<br />
Kingdom presents a taxonomy based on ascus and ascoma (unitunicate inoperculate asci<br />
in perithecia, called Pyrenomycetes; or unitunicate asci, in apothecia, called<br />
Discomycetes in many texts). Unitunicate, operculate asci are only in the order Pezizales.<br />
Green arrow = lichenized<br />
Series Unitunicatae-Operculatae<br />
Order Pezizales: 150 genera, 900 species. The 'operculate discomycetes'<br />
-- Your TEXT looks at 7 of the 13 families currently recognized.<br />
Familiy Pezizaceae is the core of the Order: Their asci have a diagnostic pop-open<br />
lid or operculum, and the tips of the asci are amyloid (sometimes expressed as I+ -this<br />
means giving a blue, starch-like reaction in an iodine solution known as<br />
Melzer's reagent). Below right: evolution of hypogeous forms (the true Truffles):
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