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Jellydiscs
1 species
Gelatinous, purple to pink cup fungi on decaying wood, often accompanied by club- or brain-shaped asexual stages. Ascocoryne sarcoides and A. cylichnium are the common species.
Apothecia small, gelatinous, purple to pinkish, cup- to disc-shaped; asexual sporodochia club- to tongue-shaped; asci 8-spored with amyloid apices; spores fusiform, often septate at maturity.
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