MycoKey : the genus Helicobasidium

Generic short diagnoses: Characteristic purple, felty, plant parasitic resupinate with helicoid, transversely septate basidia; hyphae wide and unclamped. Another state in the lifecycle parasitize rust fungi.


Species example:


Helicobasidium sp. - anamorph
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, 2002

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