MycoKey : the genus Duebenia

Generic short diagnoses: Erumpent, salmon to red or reddish brown, inoperculate discomycetes on herbaceous stems, with ellipsoid, 1-septate spores, 2- to 8-spored asci and a hyaline to yellowish excipulum.


Species example:


Duebenia compta - Excipulum, asci, paraphyses, apores
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
HB 7629

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