MycoKey : the genus Laetinaevia

Generic short diagnoses: Erumpent, yellow, salmon or orange, inoperculate discomycetes on leaves, herbaceous stems and brown algae (Fucales), with 0-3-septate spores and a hyaline textura angularis to prismatica.


Species example:


Laetinaevia carneoflavida - fruit-bodies, ascus base†, asci and paraphyses*, ascus tops† (lugol), spores*
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Luxemburg, HB 6371

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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