''Saccobolus glaber'' is a species of

apothecia An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mo ...

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belonging to the family Ascobolaceae. This is an uncommon

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an species which appears in summer and autumn as minute yellowish discs only reaching 0.5 mm across, thickly clustered on animal dung.

References

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''Saccobolus glaber'' at Species Fungorum
Pezizales Fungi described in 1794 Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon {{Pezizomycetes-stub