MycoKey : the genus Mniaecia

Generic short diagnoses: A sessile, disc-shaped, green, inoperculate discomycete on liverworts, with ellipsoid to pyriform, aseptate spores.


Species example:


Mniaecia jungermanniae - DK: mosskive - fruit-bodies, paraphyses, ascus tops, spores
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 2873

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