MycoKey : the genus Humaria

Generic short diagnoses: Medium sized, deeply cup-shaped operculate discomycetes with the outside covered by up to 2000 µm long, brown, acute hairs and with verrucose to smooth, ellipsoid spores. On soil.


Species example:


Humaria hemisphaerica - DK: halvkugleformet børstebæger UK: Glazed Cup - asci and spores
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-98.111

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