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 - Asci*, paraphyses*, ascus tops (left *, right † - lugol), ascus base*, spores*
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
France, HB 4944, 4980

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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