MycoKey : the genus Coniophora

Generic short diagnoses: Thin to thickish, brownish, yellow or olivaceous, brown rotting resupinates with thick-walled, yellowish to olivaceous, cyanophilous spores.


Species example:


Coniophora puteana - DK: gul tømmersvamp UK: Wet Rot - left with the parasite Nodulisporium cecidiogenes; right basidia at x 100
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-98.221

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