Ascobolus Ascophanus Cleistoiodophanus Cubonia Saccobolus Thecotheus The Ascobolaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pezizales.
A 2008 estimate places 6 genera and 129 species in the family.
[1] Most fruiting bodies of the disk-like ascobolaceae examined, are round and without conidium.
All members of this family of fungi have a saprobiontic lifestyle, feeding on decaying and dead matter.
[2] Ascobolus michaudii and Ascobolus albidus live as decomposers on the feces of large herbivore and omnivore mammals and depend on their survival, due to the specialized habitat they inhabit.