MycoKey : the genus Botryobasidium

Generic short diagnoses: Thin, ± cottony, white or pale resupinate with cylindrical to barrel-shaped basidia and inamyloid spores, basidia often with more than 4 sterigmata, basal hyphae wide and often brownish; may be associated with distinct buff or grey anamorphs.


Species example:


Botryobasidium conspersum - closeup of the anamorph Haplotrichum conspersum (x 35)
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-01.301

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