MycoKey : the genus Craterocolla

Generic short diagnoses: Pinkish brain-like (or discoid as anamorph), smallish, lignicolous (parasitic?) gelly fungus with cruciate basidia and aseptate spores. Associated with ’pycnidial’ ± top-shaped state.


Species example:


Craterocolla cerasi - anamorph
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe
Russia (Kamchatka), TL-4734

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