Cryptogamica Helvetica 23

Descrizione

This publication documents with photos, drawings and detailed descriptions individual collections of 200 non-lichenised ascomycetes from eight classes (Pezizomycetes, Leotiomycetes, Lecanoromycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Geoglossomycetes, Sordariomycetes, Dothideomycetes, Laboulbeniomycetes), based on records from Switzerland in the years 1997 to 2019. The species are distributed as follows across their ecological spectrum: deadwood (100 species), stems, leaves, flowers and fruits, especially of herbaceous plants (29 species), mosses (16 species), fungi (9 species), dung (6 species), beetles (4 species), soil (36 species, of which 3 on burnt areas and 2 on urine-damaged areas). 31 species cannot be clearly assigned to an ecological spectrum. The distribution of most species is concentrated in the montane zone, 15 species are mainly distributed in the subalpine or alpine zone. Several species have been newly described only in recent years.