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 - paraphyses and asci with spores
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 3336

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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