MycoKey : the genus Chalazion

Generic short diagnoses: Minute, whitish cushion-shaped operculate discomycetes on soil or dung. Spores ellipsoid with ± discrete, cyanophilous, up to 3 µm high, warts.


Species example:


Chalazion helveticum - DK: mosebæger - ascus and spores
Photo and © Henry Dissing
Switzerland, 79.23

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