MycoKey : the genus Diplocarpa

Generic short diagnoses: A fairly robust, olive to blackish inoperculate discomycete on wood, with reddish margin and brown hairs, ellipsoid, 1-septate spores and unique paraphyses with a protruding, septate, flame-like apex.


Species example:


Diplocarpa bloxamii - DK: pragthårskive - Ascus, paraphyses, ascus top, spores // anamorph and conidia
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 3864

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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