MycoKey : the genus Mollisia

Generic short diagnoses: Mostly superficial, whitish, greyish, brown or black, inoperculate discomycetes on a range of substrates, mostly with 0-1-septate spores‚ ± refractive paraphyses and a hyaline to brown or black textura globulosa, in some species seated on a dark subiculum.


Species example:


Mollisia ventosa - DK: grågul gråskive
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-03.064

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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