Ascomycota

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
ASCOMYCETES spore shooters	Class			3 ident. refs
Calcarisporiella thermophila a fungus	Species			1 ident. refs
Coelomycete sp. indesc. an undescribed coelomycete	Anamorphic Species		19 images
Dothoriopsis corni a coelomycete	Anamorphic Species			1 ident. refs
Flabellospora a genus of anamorphic fungi	Form genus	1 subtaxa	10 images
Myrmecridium phragmitis	Anamorphic Species			1 ident. refs
PEZIZOMYCOTINA a subphylum of ascomycetes	Subphylum	1,816 subtaxa	10,139 images	1,778 ident. refs
Piricularia aquatica an aeroaquatic hyphomycete	Anamorphic Species			1 ident. refs
Rachicladosporium pini	Anamorphic Species			1 ident. refs
SACCHAROMYCOTINA yeasts	Subphylum	4 subtaxa		6 ident. refs
Suttoniella arnaudii	Anamorphic Species			1 ident. refs
TAPHRINOMYCOTINA pneumocystid fungi	Subphylum	14 subtaxa	111 images	15 ident. refs
Tumularia aquatica an ascomycete	Species		2 images
Utrechtiana cibiessia	Anamorphic Species			1 ident. refs
Ascomycota (unidentified) Unidentified Spore Shooters	Unidentified		24 images
[Coelomycetes] stem- and leaf-fungi	Informal	84 subtaxa	456 images	118 ident. refs
[Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes] dematiaceous anamorphic fungi	Informal	176 subtaxa	537 images	286 ident. refs
[Hyphomycetes] moulds	Informal	152 subtaxa	899 images	241 ident. refs
[Lichenes] lichens	Informal	349 subtaxa	2,074 images	293 ident. refs
[Pyrenomycetes] charcoal fungi	Informal	337 subtaxa	1,696 images	820 ident. refs

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ainsworth, G.C., Sparrow, F.K. & Sussman, A.S. (eds)	1973	* The Fungi, An Advanced Treatise: Volume IVA, a taxonomic review with keys: ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti *(Superseded)	xviii+621pp, Academic Press
	Andersson, I.		Swedish Fungi	swefungi.se/swindex.html
	Aranzadi Society of Sciences		Mikologia	www.aranzadi.eus/micologia/a?lang=eu
	Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F.	1984	Ascomycetes	Fungi of Switzerland, Vol I, 310pp, Mykologia, Lucerne
	Dennis, R.W.G.	1981	British Ascomycetes: Addenda and Corrigenda	J. Cramer
()	Dennis, R.W.G.	1978	British Ascomycetes	Revised and enlarged edition, 585pp, J. Cramer
	Dennis, R.W.G.	1960	* British Cup Fungi and their Allies: an Introduction to the Ascomycetes *(Superseded)	Vol 143, The Ray Society, London
()	Ellis, M.B. & J.P.	1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 246pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
	Ellis, M.B.	1976	More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes	Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
	Ellis, M.B.	1971	Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes	608pp, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
	Ellis, W.N.		Plant Parasites of Europe: leafminers, galls and Fungi	bladmineerders.nl
	Hansen, L & Knudsen, H	2000	Nordic Macromycetes, Vol 1 (Ascomycetes)	Nordic Macromycetes, 1, 309pp, Nordsvamp, Copenhagen
	Perz, P.		Checklist of Larger Ascomycetes from Klodzko Land (Poland)	wwkk.mikologia.pl/index.php
()	Phillips, R.	2006	Mushrooms	2nd, expanded edition of his 1981 book edition, 384pp, Macmillan
()	Phillips, R.	1981	Mushrooms & other Fungi of Great Britain & Europe	287pp, Pan Books
()	Thompson, P.I.	2013	Ascomycetes in colour - found and photographed in mainland Britain	367pp, Xlibris
	von Arx, J.A. & Müller, E., translated by Butterfill, G.B.	1969	Keys to the genera of Amerospored and Didymospored Pyrenomycetes	53pp, Commonwealth Mycological Institute
	Wergen, B.		Funghiparadise - where the ascomycetes are at home	www.sites.google.com/site/funghiparadise/home
Aero-aquatic Fungi
	Descals, E. et al	1989	Aquatic Hyphomycetes
	Ingold, C.T.	1975	* Guide to Aquatic Hyphomycetes *(Superseded)	Scientific Publication, No. 30, 96pp, Freshwater Biological Association
Dung Fungi
()	Doveri, F.	2007	Fungi Fimicoli Italici: a guide to the recognition of basidiomycetes and ascomycetes living on faecal material	corrected reprint edition, 1104pp, A.M.B. Fondazione Centro Studi Micologici
()	Richardson, M.J. & Watling, R.	1997	Keys to Fungi on Dung	2 edition, 68pp, British Mycological Society
	Seifert, K., Kendrick, B. & Murase, G.	1983	A key to Hyphomycetes on dung	Biology Series, No. 27, 61pp, University of Waterloo
Lichenicolous Fungi
	Hawksworth, D.L., Atienza, V. & Coppins, B.J.	2010	Artifical Keys to the Lichenicolous Fungi of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, Iberian Peninsula, and Canary Islands
	Hawksworth, D.L.	1983	A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles	44pp, The British Lichen Society
Plant Pathology
()	Ellis, M.B. & J.P.	1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
	Moore, W.C.	1959	British Parasitic Fungi	430pp, Cambridge University Press
Software
	Laessøe, T. & Peteren, J.H.	2008	Mycokey v3.1
	Laessøe, T. & Peteren, J.H.	2007	* Mycokey v2.1 *(Superseded)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 19,554 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)

Except for a handful of larger species, microscopic examination is always required to identify ascomycetes. Staining is often necessary to make hyaline tissues and spores visible - the question is what stain to use: as a rule of thumb: if it has asci, use Melzer’s Iodine; other hyaline structures can be stained with Congo Red. Anamorphic fungi generally stain well in Cotton Blue, although dematiaceous hyphomycetes generally need no staining.

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Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

ASCOMYCOTA Caval.-Sm.
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

ASCOMYCOTA is also a member of:

Identification Works

Aero-aquatic Fungi

Dung Fungi

Lichenicolous Fungi

Plant Pathology

Software

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)