"Leotia" is closely related to "Microglossum", another genus characterized by capitate ascocarps. "Leotia" species are characterized by their capitate ascocarps. No species produce ascocarps (fruiting bodies). It is particularly characteristic of agarics, boletes, and some polypores, tooth fungi, and ascocarps. The ascocarps can grow quite large, up to across. The ascocarps are cup-shaped and up to across. Other species of fungi have been known to parasitize ascocarps. This stage contains ascocarps, or sacs/fruiting bodies, which contain the sexually produced inoculating ascospores. The fruiting bodies, ascocarps appear in the form of pseudothecia. With bodies (ascocarps) from to in diameter, burgundy truffles are relatively large. The ascocarps of "Coccomyces" species form within the epidermal layer of a plant host. The members of Saccharomycotina reproduce by budding and they do not produce ascocarps (fruiting bodies). The round, dark brown fruiting bodies (ascocarps) have a black-brown skin with small pyramidal cusps.