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
Photo and © Gérard Trichies
France, GT 00635

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