Order:
Hypocreales
This order is
recognized by its brightly coloured, simple or compound, perithecial ascomata
-- usually yellow, orange or red -- which are fleshy or waxy in texture.
Family:
Clavicipitaceae
Clavicipes purpurea (The cause of ergot of
rye)
Class: Discomycetes
Known as cup-fungi
producing apothecial ascomata. found growing saprophytically on wood, dung
or dead tree leaves among which they grow on the forest floor, several are
pathogen for plant. Fruiting bodies are open and bear their asci on the surface
or in large, open cavities. The branched, septate mycelium is in the soil while
the ascpcarp, is formed above ground except on truffles, which have underground
ascocarp (Hypogean).
Discomycetes
which form their ascocarp above ground (Epigean) classified into two large
group based on their method of releasing spore from the asci:
the operculate and inoperculate Discomycetes.
Operculate
Discomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family Pezizaceae
Family: Ascobolaceae
Ascobolus
sp.