MycoKey : the species Lachnum virgineum

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 virgineum - DK: jomfru-frynseskive, UK: Snowy Disco
young fruit-bodies

Lachnum virgineum , jomfru-frynseskive, Snowy Disco, vit hårskål, Gewoon franjekelkje, Weißes Hårbecherchen
young fruit-bodies
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Sweden, JHP-06.084
Lachnum virgineum , jomfru-frynseskive, Snowy Disco, vit hårskål, Gewoon franjekelkje, Weißes Hårbecherchen
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-99.044
Lachnum virgineum , jomfru-frynseskive, Snowy Disco, vit hårskål, Gewoon franjekelkje, Weißes Hårbecherchen
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-92.055c
Lachnum virgineum , jomfru-frynseskive, Snowy Disco, vit hårskål, Gewoon franjekelkje, Weißes Hårbecherchen
fruit-bodies, hairs, spores, asci and paraphyses
Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany

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