''Ascocoryne'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the family
Gelatinodiscaceae. It was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
in 1967 by
James Walton Groves and Doreen Wilson to accommodate the sexual morph and to reserve ''
Coryne'' for the asexual morph.
Today, only one name is allowed for the whole fungus and ''Coryne'' is treated as a synonym of ''Ascocoryne''.
Species
,
Index Fungorum
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recognizes the following species in the genus ''Ascocoryne''.
* ''
Ascocoryne albida''
(Berk.) Seifert (2014)
* ''
Ascocoryne cylichnium''
(Tul.) Korf (1971)
* ''
Ascocoryne javanica''
(Penz. & Sacc.) K.S. Thind & H. Singh (1972)
* ''
Ascocoryne laurisilvae''
A. Mateos & De la Peña-Lastra (2024)
* ''
Ascocoryne lilacina''
(Fr.) Baral, Helleman, Matočec, I. Kušan, Polhorský & E. Weber (2020)
* ''
Ascocoryne sarcoides
''Ascocoryne sarcoides'' is a species of fungus in the family Helotiaceae. The species name is derived from the Greek (fleshy). Formerly known as ''Coryne sarcoides'', its Taxonomy (biology), taxonomical history has been complicated by the fac ...
''
(Jacq.) J.W. Groves & D.E. Wilson (1967)
* ''
Ascocoryne striata''
(Ellis & Everh.) V. Kučera & Lizoň (2005)
* ''
Ascocoryne trichophora''
(A.L. Sm.) Seifert (2014)
* ''
Ascocoryne turficola''
(Boud.) Korf (1971)
References
Helotiales genera
Taxa described in 1967
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