MycoKey : the genus Genea

Generic short diagnoses: Smooth, scaly or warty, brown to black, fragile ascomycete truffles with hollow, ± folded gleba, clavate to cylindrical asci and large, ornamented, hyaline to yellowish, ellipsoid spores.


Species example:


Genea hispidula - DK: håret halvtrøffel - asci and spores
Photo and © Christian Lange
Denmark, CL 1993

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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