MycoKey : the genus Claussenomyces

Generic short diagnoses: Broadly attached, ± gelatinous, disc- to cushion-shaped, greenish, olive or blackish, inoperculate discomycetes on wood or resin, with non-septate to multiseptate spores which may form microconidia. Sometimes with prominent stilbelloid anamorph.


Species example:


Claussenomyces atrovirens - DK: sortgrøn linseskive
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Sweden, JHP-06.081

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