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Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing asci and ascospores; persistent; discoid; sessile; discrete, or coalescing; tiny (always?); perithecial (perithecia immersed in a well developed eu- or pseudo-stroma, often long-necked, the interascal tissue of cylindrical paraphyses); comprising a pre-formed stroma bearing perithecia in which asci, spores and paraphyses develop; stromata present (well developed). The asci long stalked, with a truncate apex; with more or less conspicuous apical thickening (with a small, often J+ apical ring); more or less thick walled. The walls of the asci not staining blue with iodine. The ascospores slightly curved; pale brown.
The hyphae without clamp connections. The hyphal walls lamellate, double layered, with both layers electron dense.
Ecology. Parasitic (often), or saprophytic; if parasitic, on vascular plants. The fruit-bodies on dead wood, or on living wood. Associated with broad-leaved trees. The fruit-bodies on trunks and branches of living trees and on dead trees and fallen logs. On branches of deciduous trees, especially beech, bursting through the bark. Found in broad-leaved woodland and in mixed woodland.
Representation in Britain and Ireland. Anthostoma, Cladosphaeria, Cryptosphaeria, Cryptosphaerina, Diatrype, Diatrypella, Eutypa, Eutypella, Peroneutypa, Peroneutypella, Quaternaria, Scoptria.
World representation. 123 species; genera 8. “Widespread”.
Classification. Ascomycota; Ascomycetes; Sordariomycetidae; Xylariales.
Illustrations. • Diatrype verrucaeformis (Price). DIATRYPACEAE. 64. Diatrype verrucaeformis. From Price (1864).
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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’.
