MycoKey : the genus Bulbillomyces

Generic short diagnoses: A thin and waxy, white to watery greyish resupinate with long, thin-to thick-walled, crystal-bearing cystidia and thick-walled, inamyloid spores; most easily detected by the prominent water dispersed bulbil state (compare with Subulicystidium).


Species example:


Bulbillomyces farinosus - DK: "æg-kalkskind" - closeup with anamorph
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-99.536

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