Ascomycete.org Journal

The electronic journal Ascomycete.org (ISSN 2100-0840) is published under Creative Commons license. Each volume contains 5 to 6 fascicles per year. The journal accepts all articles dealing with taxonomy of Ascomycota. As an international journal, it authorizes the authors to submit their text in the following languages: French, English, German, Italian and Spanish. The texts must respect the “rules to authors” (see Documents) and are submitted to the opinion of our Editorial Board. They must be sent to the address contact@ascomycete.org.

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The last published issue of Ascomycete.org is fascicle 2, vol. 17 (July 2025).

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Managing Editor: Nicolas Van Vooren [FR]

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  •  Hans-Otto Baral [DE]
  •  Martin Bemmann [DE]
  •  Matteo Carbone [IT]
  •  Adrian Carter [CA]
  •  Jacques Fournier [FR]
  •  Gernot Friebes [AT]
  •  Peter Johnston [NZ]
  •  Luis Quijada [ES]
  •  François Valade [FR]
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List of last articles

Tuber vesiculosum (Tuberaceae, Pezizales), a new species in the /maculatum clade, found in northern Spain

Cabero J., Alvarado P., Alonso J., Moratón F. – 31 July 2025 – Vol. 17 (2)
A new truffle species, Tuber vesiculosum sp. nov., is described from mixed deciduous forests in Cades, Cantabria (Spain), where it was found in association with Corylus avellana. This species belongs to the white truffle group (maculatum group) and i... Read More

New combinations in the genus Phylloscypha (Pezizaceae)

VanVooren N., Kekki T. – 31 July 2025 – Vol. 17 (2)
Peziza sesiana and P. kallioi are two close species, based on their original description. The revision of an isotype of the first species and study of recent collections of the second allowed to get molecular data that confirm they are not conspecifi... Read More

Discina spinosospora (Discinaceae), nouvelle espèce pour la fonge de France

VanVooren N., Hentic M. – 31 July 2025 – Vol. 17 (2)
Description and illustration of Discina spinosospora, newly recorded in France, found in the French department of Savoie. Comparison with D. perlata, the macro- and micromorphologically closest species. A tentative key to the genus Discina s. str. is... Read More

Description of Plicaria sylvieae (Pezizaceae), a new Mediterranean non-pyrophilous species

Van Vooren N., Suberbielle N. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)
Description and illustration of a new Plicaria species, collected in Corsica (France), characterized by its smooth ascospores and its habitat. Our collections were compared, morphologically and phylogenetically, with other known species with smooth a... Read More

Ascomycètes non lichénisés nouveaux pour la France. Notules n° 6

Mombert A., Hairaud M., Stöckli E., Chasle J.-C., Senn-Irlet B., Priou J.-P., Van Vooren N. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)
This article provides a list of non-lichenised ascomycetes considered as new for France. The taxa are presented as brief notes with indication of location, habitat, and some taxonomic data. This sixth series deals with the following species: Allophyl... Read More

What is Peziza livida Schumach. (Pezizales)? Critical review of its interpretations, and description of Perilachnea carbonicola sp. nov.

Van Vooren N., Stöckli E. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)
New collections of a rare species, growing on burnt places and traditionaly named Trichophaea livida since the late 1980s, gave the opportunity to sequence it and to explore its taxonomic history. We discovered that the original Peziza livida has bee... Read More

First Italian collections of Daleomyces stictisporus (Pezizaceae) and an updated key to the genus Daleomyces

Agnello C., Van Vooren N. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)
The first Italian collections of Daleomyces stictisporus are described based on findings made in Apulia (Italy). This contribution is also accompanied by colour photographs of fresh samples in habitat, and microscopic characters, line drawings, phylo... Read More

Morchella disparilis (Pezizales) – first record for the Sicily and first morphological, molecular and ecological data for Italy

Calanni Rindina M., Vasquez G.E. – 13 December 2024 – Vol. 16 (5)
Morchella disparilis Loizides & P.-A. Moreau is a spring species that was first described in 2016 on samples collected in Cyprus. It is an easy-to-identify species with a Mediterranean range. The specific epithet, which means “different” or “dissimil... Read More

New species and records of intrahymenial parasites in the genus Helicogonium (Helicogoniaceae, Phacidiales)

Baral H.O., Perić B. – 13 December 2024 – Vol. 16 (5)
Ten new species are described in Helicogonium and new records of eight known species are presented. The species are illustrated either by drawings or photographs, or in nine species by both. Helicogonium is a genus of intrahymenial parasites growing ... Read More

Phragmocalloria (Helotiales incertae sedis), a new genus of Calloria-like species with large, 3–7-septate ascospores

Baral H.O. – 13 December 2024 – Vol. 16 (5)
The new genus Phragmocalloria is proposed for Coryne faberi and two newly described species, P. brevispora and P. septemseptata. Phragmocalloria resembles Calloria s.str. in having sessile, yellow-orange, drought-tolerant apothecia and inamyloid asci... Read More

Octospora sulcatispora sp. nov. (Pezizales) – a species of Octospora with an unexpected ascospore ornamentation

Ribes M.Á., Martínez-Gil R., Eckstein J., Vega M., Janošík L., Calzada A. – 24 July 2024 – Vol. 16 (4)
Octospora sulcatispora is described as a new species based on five collections from three different locations in Spain (Andalucía, Castilla y León and La Rioja). It is unique due to the sulcate ornamentation of its ascospores, a trait otherwise compl... Read More

First reports of autumnal morels in Sicily: Morchella galilaea and Morchella rufobrunnea (Pezizales, Morchellaceae)

Calanni Rindina M., Caprì M. – 24 July 2024 – Vol. 16 (4)
The present study aims to confirm the presence in Italy, particularly in Sicily, of two interesting species belonging to the genus Morchella Dill. ex Pers., one predominantly found in autumn, Morchella galilaea Masaphy & Clowez, and another one which... Read More
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