MycoKey : the genus Cenangium

Generic short diagnoses: Sessile, solitary or fasciculate, rather tough, brown to blackish, inoperculate discomycetes on branches or needles, with ellispsoid to ovoid, 1- to 3-septate spores.


Species example:


Cenangium ferruginosum - DK: fyrre-læderskive - Fruit-bodies, paraphyses, asci, ascus tops (right broken), spores
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 3016

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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