MycoKey : the genus Dencoeliopsis

Generic short diagnoses: A narrowly attached to short stipitate, rather tough, buff to brown, inoperculate discomycete, from a erumpent, basal, raduloid, black stroma (Xenotypa aterrima), that decorticates Betula branches.


Species example:


Dencoeliopsis johnstonii - DK: birke-læderskive - yooung specimens
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-05.079

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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