MycoKey : the genus Merismodes

Generic short diagnoses: Small brown cyphelloid, tubular, brown-spored fungi with incrusted, brown hairs often with a smooth capitate end cell. On wood, rarely on stems of large dicot herbs.


Species example:


Merismodes fasciculata - DK: "knippe-læderskål"
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-99.177

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