Lulworthiaceae

[1] Species in the family have a widespread distribution in both temperate and tropical oceans, and are typically found growing on submerged wood or on seaweed.

[2] In 2000, Molecular analysis of several species of Lulworthia and Lindra led to the reassignment of their parent genera to the new order Lulworthiales in addition to the new family Lulworthiaceae.

[8] As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020 (with amount of species per genus);[4] The ascomata, roughly spherical to cylindrical in shape, may be either embedded in or on the material to which the fruit body is attached.

The brown- to black-colored ascomata can be either leathery (coriaceous) or dark-colored and readily broken (carbonaceous).

The internal structure of the ascomata, the centrum, is at first filled with a transparent pseudoparenchyma (a type of tissue made of hyphae that are twisted and matted together) dissolves upon reaching maturity.