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.