MycoKey : the genus Gorgoniceps

Generic short diagnoses: Broadly attached to short stipitate, ± fragile, whitish, greenish, greyish or blackish, inoperculate discomycetes, with cylindrical to filiform, aseptate to multiseptate spores.


Species example:


Gorgoniceps aridula - Fruit-bodies, paraphyses and asci*, spores*
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 3868

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