MycoKey : the genus Nidularia

Generic short diagnoses: A cushion-shaped gasteroid fruitbody in the form of a thin splitting skin and within a mass of lentiform brown peridioles with internal basidia; peridium with thorny setae.


Species example:


Nidularia deformis - DK: pudesvamp
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe
Denmark; 2.XI.1985

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