MycoKey : the genus Ascocorticium

Generic short diagnoses: A thin, greyish white, resupinate, inoperculate discomycte that mostly is found on the inside of loosening pine bark; with small, ellipsoid, non-septate spores and 8-spored asci.


Species example:


Ascocorticium anomalum - DK: almindelig sækhinde
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-94.412

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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