MycoKey : the genus Amylostereum

Generic short diagnoses: Mostly reflexed, tough resupinates with brown, thick-walled, encrusted cystidia and ellipsoid to cylindrical, smooth, amyloid spores; mostly on conifers.


Species example:


Amylostereum laevigatum - DK: ene-lædersvamp
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-98.078

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