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Coniochaeta
Nomenclature
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Order: ConiochaetalesFamily: Coniochaetaceae
SUMMARY
Teleomorph: Stromata absent. Ascomata perithecial, erumpent but usually quickly becoming superficial, scattered or aggregated, black, globose or pyriform, the ostiole periphysate, with usually conspicuous black spines, often irregular in form, covering either the entire ascoma surface or the ostiolar region only. Peridium usually composed of an outer layer of rather small-celled thick-walled textura angularis, and inner less strongly pigmented layers, rarely areolate with peridial plates composed of radially arranged cells. Interascal tissue usually prominent, of fairly thick-walled gradually tapering paraphyses. Asci cylindrical, fairly thin-walled, usually short-stalked, the apex obtuse to truncate, with a usually conspicuous small apical ring which does not blue in iodine, 4- to multispored. Ascospores usually arranged uniseriately, mid to dark brown, fairly thick-walled, aseptate, often laterally flattened, with a prominent germ slit extending either the entire length of one of the flattened sides or completely around the spore; mucous sheath often present but difficult to detect in dried material.
Anamorph Phialophora-like.