# Bryocentria

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***Bryocentria*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [fungi](/source/Fungi) in the family [Bionectriaceae](/source/Bionectriaceae). The genus was described in 2004 by mycologist Peter Döbbeler. Species in the genus have small orange [fruit bodies](/source/Ascocarp) and excipular cells with pitted walls. They have numerous [asci](/source/Ascus) containing two-celled [ascospores](/source/Ascospore). Species grow [parasitically](/source/Parasitism) on [bryophytes](/source/Bryophyte). The genus originally contained three species: *[B. cyanodesma](/source/Bryocentria_cyanodesma)*, *[B. metzgeriae](/source/Bryocentria_metzgeriae)*, and the [type species](/source/Type_species) *[B. brongniartii](/source/Bryocentria_brongniartii)*;[1] an additional four species were described in 2010.[2]

## References

1. Döbbeler P. (2004). "*Bryocentria* (Hypocreales), a new genus of bryophilous Ascomycetes". *Mycological Progress*. **3** (3): 247–56. [doi:10.1007/s11557-006-0095-7](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-006-0095-7)

1. Döbbeler P. (2010). "New species and records of *Bryocentria* – a hypocrealean genus of bryophilous ascomycetes". *Karstenia*. **50**: 11–23.

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