MycoKey : the species Geoglossum fallax

Generic short diagnoses: Stipitate, club-shaped to spathulate, dark brown to black, dry or slimy, soil inhabiting discomycetes, mostly with long, ± brown multi-septate spores.


Geoglossum fallax - DK: småskællet jordtunge

Geoglossum fallax , småskællet jordtunge, skjelljordtunge, fjællig jordtunga, Fijngeschubde årdtong, Tæuschende Erdzunge
Illustration and © Jan Vesterholt
Denmark, JV01-819
Geoglossum fallax , småskællet jordtunge, skjelljordtunge, fjællig jordtunga, Fijngeschubde årdtong, Tæuschende Erdzunge
Paraphyses and ascus*, fruit-bodies, ascus top† (lugol), spores*
Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral
France, HB 6546

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