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

• Hypocreales: ascus unitunicate, inamyloid; stroma or subiculum present; perithecia are light colored
  • three families: Hypocreaceae, Hypomycetaceae, Nectriaceae

• Hypomycetaceae: bright-colored ascoma found on a subiculum.

reddish-orange perithecium on yellowish subiculum		ascus and ascospores	uniseriate hyalodidymospores With roughend spore walls
Hypomyces lactifluorum parasitic on Russula

dark colored ascoma (perithecia) on yellowish subiculum.
Hypomyces on Boletus chrysenteron

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