Van Vooren N., Polesel G., Ullrich R., Karich A.
Vol. 17 (4) – 29 November 2025
doi: 10.25664/art-0421
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Abstract: During surveys in 2022, 2023 and 2025 in burnt sites in France and Germany, numerous collections of the pyrophilous genus Anthracobia were studied. Based on morphological and phylogenetic data, we had the opportunity to revise the taxonomy of known European species. Three new species are introduced, as well as the designation of an epitype of A. melaloma and a neotype of A. tristis. Some taxonomical issues are still pending within the A. melaloma complex. We also propose some new observations on ecology and lifestyle of Anthracobia. Finally, an updated key to European species is provided.
The genus Anthracobia was first published by Boudier (1885), with Peziza melaloma Alb. & Schwein. as type and amended by himself several years later (Boudier, 1907). Based on Boudier’s definition, Anthracobia was circumscribed to a group of pyrophilous discomycetes producing small, orange apothecia, with external short and obtuse brown hairs, and microscopically having smooth, guttulate ascospores and paraphyses widened at the top, turning green in iodine solutions […]