MycoKey : the species Lachnum sp.

Generic short diagnoses: Sessile to stipitate, hairy, mostly whitish, rarely pinkish to orange coloured, inoperculate discomycetes with ± hyaline, entirely rough, septate hairs and mostly lanceolate, protruding paraphyses. Not rarely turing red-brown with age due to refractive vacuolar guttules in paraphyses and hairs. Excipulum of textura prismatica.


Lachnum sp.

Lachnum sp.
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-05.048
Lachnum sp.
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-05.048

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