MycoKey : the genus Perrotia

Generic short diagnoses: Narrowly attached, inoperculate discomycetes on wood or grasses with reddish to dark brown colours, cylindrical or narrowing, rather thick-walled, grannulate hairs and asci with a non-amyloid apparatus.


Species example:


Perrotia flammea - DK: flamme-frynseskive - fruit-body, section, hair, hairapices, asci and paraphyses, ascus top†, spores
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Switzerland, HB 3146

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