MycoKey : the genus Phaeohelotium

Generic short diagnoses: Sessile to short stipitate, soft, white to yellow, reddish or lilac, inoperculate discomycetes with a rather large celled textura angularis to a textura globulosa; esp. on wood, cupules or litter.


Species example:


Phaeohelotium flexuosum
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-03.251

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