MycoKey : the genus Amicodisca

Generic short diagnoses: Sessile, lignicolous inoperculate discomycetes with greyish hymenium and long, greenish yellow hairs, which are cylindrical or narrowing, thin-walled and multiseptate, and with cylindrical paraphyses.


Species example:


Amicodisca svrcekii - From left: frb., hairs, asci, paraphyses, ascus top† (lugol) and spores.
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 5182

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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