| Foreword | |
| Organizing Committee | |
| Ascomycete systematics in the nineties | p. 3 |
| Implications of the holomorph concept for ascomycete systematics | p. 13 |
| Ascoma structure and ontogenesis in ascomycete systematics | p. 23 |
| M. Chadefaud and ascomycete systematics | p. 37 |
| Developmental morphology of the "zwischengruppe" between Ascohymeniales and Ascoloculares | p. 43 |
| Thallic mycelial and cytological characters in ascomycete systematics | p. 57 |
| Unitary parameters in conidiogenesis | p. 65 |
| Interconnections amongst anamorphs and their possible contribution to ascomycete systematics | p. 77 |
| Can we recognize monophyletic groups among hyphomycetes? | p. 101 |
| Asci and ascospores in ascomycete systematics | p. 111 |
| Septal ultrastructure and ascomycete systematics | p. 127 |
| Secondary metabolites of some non-lichenized ascomycetes | p. 145 |
| Secondary metabolites as a tool in ascomycete systematics: lichenized fungi | p. 155 |
| The fossil history of ascomycetes | p. 167 |
| Biogeography and ancestry of lichens and other ascomycetes | p. 175 |
| Cladistic analysis in ascomycete systematics: theory and practice | p. 185 |
| Molecular evolution of ascomycete fungi: phylogeny and conflict | p. 201 |
| 18S ribosomal DNA sequence data and dating, classifying and ranking the fungi | p. 213 |
| Relationships of Tuber, Elaphomyces, and Cyttaria (Ascomycotina), inferred from 18S rDNA studies | p. 225 |
| Cladistic analysis of partial ssrDNA sequences among unitunicate perithecial ascomycetes and its implications on the evolution of centrum development | p. 233 |
| Molecular data sets and broad taxon sampling in detecting morphological convergence | p. 243 |
| Orders and families of ascosporogenous yeasts and yeast-like taxa compared from ribosomal RNA sequence similarities | p. 249 |
| Evolutionary processes affecting adaptation to saprotrophic life styles in ascomycete populations | p. 261 |
| Different species types in lichenized ascomycetes | p. 273 |
| Peridial morphology and evolution in the prototunicate ascomycetes | p. 281 |
| Traditional discomycete taxonomy: should we also shift to a second gear? | p. 295 |
| Problems in the systematics of Pezizales | p. 303 |
| Problems in Lecanorales systematics | p. 315 |
| Problem genera and family interfaces in the Eupyrenomycetes | p. 321 |
| The development of holomorphic concepts in ophiostomatalean ascomycetes | p. 333 |
| Problems in the classification of fissitunicate ascomycetes | p. 341 |
| Systema Ascomycetum: the concept | p. 349 |
| Discussion 1: Endomycetales, Protomycetales and Taphrinales | p. 361 |
| Discussion 2: Ascosphaerales, Elaphomycetes, Erysiphales, Eurotiales, Glaziellalaes, Laboulbeniales, Microascales, Onygenales, and Spathulosporales | p. 365 |
| Discussion 3: Calopsphaeriales, Clavicipitales, Coryneliales, Diaporthales, Diatrypales, Halosphaeriales, Hypocreales, Meliolales, Ophiostomatales, Phyllachorales, Sordariales, Trichosphaeriales, and Xylariales | p. 371 |
| Discussion 4: Lecanorales | p. 379 |
| Discussion 5: Gyalectales, Lichninales, Peltigerales, and Pertusariales | p. 389 |
| Discussion 6: Caliciales, Graphidales, and Teloschistales | p. 393 |
| Discussion 7: Pezizales | p. 397 |
| Discussion 8: Cyttariales, Lahmiales, Leotiales, Medeolariales, Ostropales, Patellariaesl, Rhytismatales, and Triblidiales | p. 403 |
| Discussion 9: Arthoniales, Dothideals, Opegraphales, Pyrenulales, and Verrucariales | p. 411 |
| Discussion 10: Families and genera of uncertain position | p. 419 |
| Orders and families in the "Outline of the Ascomycetes 1993" | p. 425 |
| Participants | p. 431 |
| Index | p. 435 |
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