MycoKey : the genus Ditiola

Generic short diagnoses: A rooting, ± discoid, very tough, brown-rotting gelly fungus with tuning-fork basidia and thin-walled, up to 4-celled spores; without conspicuously swollen external hyphae.


Species example:


Ditiola radiata - DK: rod-tåresvamp - young fruit-bodies
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe
Denmark, 28.V.1981

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