MycoKey : the genus Parascutellinia

Generic short diagnoses: Small, mostly wine red operculate discomycetes with brown, acute hairs and smooth, ± ellipsoid spores. Mostly on wet river banks.


Species example:


Parascutellinia arctespora - spore
Photo and © Henry Dissing
Greenland, 73.105

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