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Orbilia, waxy cup fungi
1 species
Orbilia is the main sexual genus of the Orbiliaceae. Its fruit bodies are tiny cups, often under 1 mm across, waxy, translucent and light-colored, growing on bark, dead wood, withered leaves and dung. Many Orbilia species have asexual mould stages, and some of these are nematode-trapping fungi such as Arthrobotrys. In the broad classification of Baral and colleagues, Orbilia also includes all the nematode-trapping species.
Apothecia: minute (about 0.1-1.5 mm), waxy, translucent, light-colored, sessile to sub-stipitate. Asci usually 8-spored, cylindric-clavate. Ascospores: small, hyaline, each with a refractive spore body visible only in living mature spores. Asexual morphs: various hyphomycetes (Arthrobotrys, Dactylella, Dactylellina, Dicranidion, Drechslerella, Trinacrium and others).
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