Inoperculate Discomycetes:
Order: leotiales
The apothecial ascomata are
superficially similar to those of the Pezizales, but the asci are
inoperculate, and usually have amyloid apical rings. Several of the families in
this order are common and well-known.
Family Sclerotiniaceae.
Sclerotinia fructicola
As the name
implies, these fungi often form sclerotia, which may be solid masses of fungal
tissue, fungal hyphae riddling a mummified host such as a peach.
Hypogen Discomycetes
Order: Tuberaler
Family: Tuberaceae
Tuber magnatum
The edible white truffles. Ascomata are sequestrate, hypogenous and
solid. The asci, produced in a highly convoluted hymenium,