MycoKey : the genus Pezicula

Generic short diagnoses: Sessile to short stipitate, ± yellowish to brown, mostly convex, often clustered, inoperculate discomycetes on wood or woody substrates, with large, ± ellipsoid, mostly septate spores and a hyaline to brown textura angularis to prismatica.


Species example:


Pezicula carpinea - DK: avnbøg-klyngeskive
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-05.089

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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