| Generic short diagnoses: An immersed, pear-shaped, inoperculate discomycete in wood, with erumpent neck, visible as a a circular disc opening by a slit, with very long, filiform, multi-septate spores. |
Ostropa barbara |
 | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Sweden, JHP-99.326 |
 section | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Sweden, JHP-99.326 |
 closeup | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Sweden, JHP-99.326 |
 fruit-bodies, ascus tops†, part of spore | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral France, HB 6047 |
 | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Sweden, JHP-99.326 |
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