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~ Leotiaceae
Anamorphic forms occurring.
Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing asci and ascospores; in B. inquinans, discoid (large, with brown carbonaceous expitulum and black hymenium, 1–3(-4) cm in diameter); clustered; stipitate to sessile; discrete (but clustered); small to medium sized; (1–)3–4 cm across; gelatinous and somewhat translucent when moist; not brightly pigmented; blackish; apothecial; comprising a pre-formed stroma bearing perithecia in which asci, spores and paraphyses develop, or comprising a perithecioid structure enclosing asci and spores (and paraphyses), with no stroma; stromata present to absent (poorly developed, immersed). The asci with a complex apical J+ ring; asci inoperculate; thin walled. The walls of the asci with a J+ apical ring. The ascospores with a longitudinal germ slit; ellipsoid; smooth; dark brown, or brown-black; simple.
The hyphae without clamp connections. The hyphal walls lamellate, double layered, with both layers electron dense.
Ecology. Parasitic (sometimes), or saprophytic. The fruit-bodies on dead wood and on living wood (and on bark). Associated with broad-leaved trees. The fruit-bodies on trunks and branches of living trees and on dead trees and fallen logs. Mostly on oak or (less commonly) beech stumps. Found in broad-leaved woodland and in mixed woodland.
Representation in Britain and Ireland. Bulgaria (including Phaeobulgaria).
World representation. 1 species; genera 1. North and south temperate.
Classification. Ascomycota; Ascomycetes; Leotiomycetidae; Helotiales.
Comments. ‘Inoperculate Discomycete’, with interascal tissue of simple paraphyses. Four of the eight spores in each ascus become lemon-shaped and dark brown and develop a germ slit.
Illustrations. • Bulgaria inquinans (LH). BULGARIACEAE. Bulgaria inquinans. Sunesen & Dahlstrøm, in Lange & Hora (1965). • Bulgaria inquinans (Berkeley). BULGARIACEAE. 7, Bulgaria inquinans (Pers.) Fr. LEOTIACEAE. 1, Leotia lubrica (Scop.) Pers. GEOGLOSSACEAE. 2, Trichoglossum hirsutum var. hirsutum (Pers.) Boud. PEZIZACEAE. 4, Peziza badia Pers.; 5, Peziza micropus Pers. MORCHELLACEAE. 6. Disciotis venosa var. reticulata (Grev.) Boud. HELOTIALES incertis sedis. 3, Microglossum olivaceum (Pers.) Gillet. From Berkeley (1860).
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland. Version: 5th August 2019. delta-intkey.com’.
