Substratum
Substratum
Fungicolous on non-lichenized ascomycetes
On basidiomycetes
On lichens
On decaying herbaceous tissue including leaves
On bark or cankers of living trees
On bark of recently dead trees
On decaying wood, woody tissue such as cones, twigs, or bark
Isolated from soil
On insects
Erumpent through needle scars and twigs of conifers
On myxomycetes
Perithecia
Stroma
Lacking
Basal subiculum or stroma
Immersed in subiculum
Immersed in stroma
Color
Orange-red to red, KOH+
Bright yellow with blackened base, KOH+
Dark red to black, KOH+
White to pale yellow, KOH-
Yellow to orange or brown, KOH-
Violet to purple
Collapse
Not collapsed
Cupulate
Laterally pinched
Surface
Smooth without apical disk
Smooth to scaly with apical disk
Slightly to conspicuously warted
With hairs
With bright-yellow scurf
With fringe of thick-walled setae
Ascospore
Shape
Globose to irregularly globose
Broadly ovoid
Broadly to narrowly ellipsoid
Broadly to narrowly fusiform
Narrowly clavate or pyriform
Naviculate
Cylindrical
Filiform
Septation
Non-septate
One-septate
3-septate
3+ transversely septate
Muriform
Ornamentation
Smooth
Spinulose
Striate
Warted/tuberculate/rugose
Apex
Apiculate
Rounded
Size (µm)
5-10
10-15
15-20
<20+
Ascospores producing ascoconidia
Absent
Present
Disarticulation
Not
Into two part-spores
Into multiple part-spores