MycoKey : the genus Discinella

Generic short diagnoses: Fairly large, sessile, fragile, inoperculate discomycetes on bryophytes, or apparently on soil, with ellipsoid to fusiform, aseptate spores.


Species example:


Discinella boudieri - DK: brun drilleskive
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-

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