PYRENOMYCETIDAE (or Hymenomycetidae--the Pyrenomycetes): asci borne in a layer; ascocarp a cleistothecium or a perithecium; contains Chaetomiales, Clavicipitales, Coronophorales, Diaportheales, Erysiphales, Hypocreales, Phyllachorales, Sordariales, and Xylariales

• Coronophorales: ascostromata present; unitunicate ascus produced in an ascostroma (not a perithecium); thus this order is intermediate between Loculoascomycetidae and the Pyrenomycetidae. The type of ascus has not been verified for all members.

multiseriate, hyalodidymospores

ascus either unitunicate or bitunicate two frames on left have been stained with congo red and phloxine the one on the right stained only with 3% KOH
Bertia moriformis

Bertia moriformis is a common fungus on dead, hardwood branches in our area. The ascostromata look like minute-blackberries.

classification system (places icons into orders)

index to genera/species