Symbolae Mycologicae p. 244. 1870.
Typus: C. mirabilis Fuckel
Location of type: G, lectotype
Type studies: Lundquist (Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 20:1-374. 1972.)
Anamorph: Chrysosporium-like (Ueda, Mycoscience 35:287. 1994), Cladorrhinum
Status: wood inhabiting species currently under revision (Huhndorf & Fernandez, in prep)
Number of epithets: 45 (20 accepted in Dictionary of the Fungi, 1995)
Monograph: Lundquist (1972, dung inhabiting species)
Additional literature: Hilber & Hilber (Zeitschrift fur Mykologie 45(2):209-233. 1979. wood inhabiting species)
ascomata scattered or clustered, superficial or erumpent, obpyriform,
with vestiture, roughened or glabrous
ascospores cylindrical, sigmoid, basal 1/3rd geniculate, apical 1/3rd
swells and becomes brown, basal 2/3rds remains hyaline, septate, various
sizes, with gelatinous appendages or not
Terrestrial habitat, occasionally from freshwater, found on decaying herbaceous and woody debris and on dung.
Distribution to date: worldwide, temperate and tropical
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