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A specialized group of fungi (mostly ascomycetes and agarics) fruit amongst the ashes marking the sites of former fires. The term phoenicoid fungi, meaning ‘arising from the ashes’, has been proposed for them by Carpenter and Trappe (1985), but they are also referred to as pyrophilous, anthracophilous or carbonicolous.
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Dix, N.J., Webster, J. (1995). Phoenicoid Fungi. In: Fungal Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0693-1_11
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