MycoKey : the genus Chondrostereum

Generic short diagnoses: Reflexed-pileate or resupinate, tough and firmly attached corticioid with tomentose upper surface, an often purplish hymenium, smooth, inamyloid spores and enclosed and projecting cystidia.


Species example:


Chondrostereum purpureum - DK: purpur-lædersvamp UK: Silverleaf Fungus
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-98.201

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