MycoKey : the species Chalazion helveticum

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


Chalazion helveticum - DK: mosebæger
ascus and spores

Chalazion helveticum , mosebæger
Illustration and © Jakub Weclawski
Poland 2009
Chalazion helveticum , mosebæger
Illustration and © Jakub Weclawski
Poland 2009
Chalazion helveticum , mosebæger
ascus and spores
Illustration and © Jakub Weclawski
Poland 2009
Chalazion helveticum , mosebæger
ascus and spores
Illustration and © Henry Dissing
Switzerland, 79.23

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