Genus Euzodiomyces Thaxt.

MB#1953

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 35: 449 (Thaxter 1900). –

Type species: E. lathrobii Thaxt. (by monotypy)

Brief description

Monoecious. Characterized by the massive and multiseriate receptacle which bears unilateral series of fertile and sterile appendages and a variable number of perithecia. Outer wall of perithecium consisting of four vertical rows with 7–10 cells each, some of them bulging outward.

Remarks

Monotypic. Benjamin & Shanor (1951) completed a study on the morphology and development of the unique species in this genus. Tavares (1985) added information on the perithecial outer wall ontogeny.