MycoKey : the genus Peniophora

Generic short diagnoses: Coloured, tough resupinates, typically fruiting above ground (xerotolerant), with ellipsoid, cylindrical or allantoid, non-amyloid spores and with thick-walled, encrusted cystidia and/or with sulphocystidia; several species with dendrohyphidia.


Species example:


Peniophora incarnata - DK: laksefarvet voksskind UK: Rosy Crust
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-92.001

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