Explore: Pyrenomycetes

asci in perithecial fruiting bodies. Sordariomycetes are also known as Pyrenomycetes, from the Greek πυρἠν - 'the stone of a fruit' - because of the usually

previously defined hymenial groups Discomycetes (now Leotiomycetes) and Pyrenomycetes (Sordariomycetes). Some important groups in Pezizomycotina include:

Calycomycetidae Subclass Lecomycetidae Subclass Pezomycetidae Class Pyrenomycetes Subclass Verrucomycetidae Subclass Ostiomycetidae Class Loculomycetes

on the inner surfaces of cup fungi or within the pits of morels. The Pyrenomycetes, tiny dark-colored fungi that live on a wide range of substrates including

L.; Ascaso, C. (2004). "The intertidal marine lichen formed by the pyrenomycete fungus Verrucaria tavaresiae (Ascomycotina) and the brown alga Petroderma

"ascos" such as truffles, ergot, ascolichens, cup fungi (discomycetes), pyrenomycetes, lorchels, and caterpillar fungus. It also contains microscopic fungi

focused on mycology, publishing significant works on the fungal class Pyrenomycetes. The fungal genera Acanthonitschkea, Nitschkia and Nitschkiopsis are

PMID 17572334. Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf S (2007). "Whatever happened to the pyrenomycetes and loculoascomycetes?". Mycological Research. 111 (Pt 9): 1064–1074

America. Knopf. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-593-31998-7. "Hypoxylon fragiforme". pyrenomycetes.free.fr. Retrieved 2024-01-01. Stadler, Marc; Quang, Dang Ngoc; Tomita

Sutherland, classified initially as a member of the Hypocreales within the Pyrenomycetes. Its taxonomic position is uncertain, although it is currently placed