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,