Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn 14:208. 1876
Typus: C. lampadophora (Berk. & Br.) Niessl
Location of type: holotype K
Type studies: Hyde et al (Nova Hedwigia 64:185-196. 1997, redescription and illustration of the type species)
Anamorph:
Status: widely circumscribed, currently under revision (Reblova, in prep)
Number of epithets: 30+
Monograph: Tsuda & Ueyama (Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 18:413-427. 1977)
Additional literature: Shearer (Web site: Freshwater Ascomycete Database www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/fungi/)
ascomata immersed becoming erumpent, globose, beaked - rostrate
at times, wall soft-textured
ascospores long-narrow fusiform to scolecosporous, hyaline, septate
Terrestrial and freshwater habitat, found on decaying wood.
Distribution to date: various temperate and tropical locations
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