MycoKey : the genus Catinella

Generic short diagnoses: A fairly large, broadly attached, inoperculate discomycete on wood, with ± olivaceous discs, ellipsoid to cylindrical, 1-septate pale greyish brown spores and a brown textura angularis to prismatica leaking purple in KOH.


Species example:


Catinella olivacea - DK: olivenskive
Photo and © Andreas Gminder
Germany

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