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 pruinatum - basidium
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Sweden, JHP-06.095

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