MycoKey : the genus Asterophora

Generic short diagnoses: Small, white-spored agarics or almost lycoperdoid with lots of brown chlamydospores, always on old agaric fruitbodies, mostly Russula; with siderophilous basidia.


Species example:


Asterophora parasitica - DK: grå snyltehat UK: Silky Piggyback
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-06.205

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