MycoKey : the genus Climacodon

Generic short diagnoses: A huge, tiered, bracket-shaped, parasitic hydnoid with non-amyloid, almost allantoid spores, and thick-walled hymenial cystidia.


Species example:


Climacodon septentrionalis - DK: kæmpepigsvamp
Photo and © J–rgen Jeppson
Sweden, 82.475

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