PLECTOMYCETIDAE: asci typically thin-walled, globose to pyriform, evanescent; asci scattered; ascocarp a cleistothecium; with 5 orders: ascosphaeriales (nc), Elaphomycetales, Onygenales, Eurotiales, Microascales (nc)

• Elaphomycetales: ascocarp hypogeous; ascus and ascospores globose

globose ascus and ascospores		hypogeous ascocarp	hypogeous ascocarp parasitized by Cordyceps
Elaphomyces granulatus			Elpahomyces parasitized by Cordyceps ophioglossoides

classification system (places icons into orders)

index to genera/species