Pezizomycotina ❤️

Question 1

Eurotiomycetes

Answer 1

variable ascomata/conidiogenesis, cleistothecia
Mostly saprophytic
Contains a large number of animal pathogens and toxin producers – relatively few plant pathogens

Question 2

Eurotiales

Answer 2

Common human pathogens
Penicillin

Question 3

Onygenales

Answer 3

Foot Fungus, Lung Diseases, Bees + Snakes

Common human pathogens

Question 4

Chaetothyriales

Answer 4

Rock fungi

Question 5

Sordariomycetes

Answer 5

perithecial ascomata, born in a stroma, sexual fusion through distinct gametangia, plant pathogens

Question 6

Sordariales

Answer 6

Genetic modeling

Question 7

Diaporthales

Answer 7

Chestnut blight

Question 8

Ophiostomatales

Answer 8

Bark beetles

Question 9

Magnaporthales

Answer 9

Magnaporthe oryzae (appressorium)

Question 10

Hypocreomycetidae

Answer 10

Insect fungi
Lightly colored perithecia

Question 11

Hypocreaceae

Answer 11

Fungal parasites, like lignin, with somatic ascomata
Include Tricogerma/hypocrea, a cusion shaped stroma on wood
Also includes hypomyces, a fungal parasite of agaricomycotina

Question 12

Calvicipitaceae

Answer 12

Parasites of plants: endophytes
Includes calviceps purpurea: ergot of rye and grasses

Question 13

(Ophino)cordycipitaceae

Answer 13

Includes cordyceps, Ophinocordyceps, Elaphocordyceps and anamorphs like Beauvera and Isaria

Question 14

Niessliaceae

Answer 14

Stachybotrys produces satratoxins
Toxic mold

Question 15

Xylariomycetidae

Answer 15

Carbonaceous stromata
Black or brown ascospores with germ pore or slit
Asci with amyloid apical ring
Parasites, saprophytes usually on wood