“…ex Fri., the type genus of the family Pezizaceae (Norman and Egger, 1999), is the largest genus in this family with 80 to 104 macrofungal species (Korf, 1972;Hawksworth et al, 1995;Spooner, 2001;Kirk et al, 2008) that grow on all types of soil (sand, clay or limestone), rotting wood, burnt ground and dung (Petersen, 1985;Hansen et al, 2001;Barseghyan and Wasser, 2011;Beug et al, 2014). This genus is generally characterized by epigeous, sessile or stipitate, cupulate, turbinate, pulvinate or sparassoid apothecia which range in size from a few millimeters to more than 10 cm in diameter (Hansen et al, 2001;Barseghyan and Wasser, 2011).…”