MycoKey : the genus Piceomphale

Generic short diagnoses: A fairly large, short-stipitate, blackish, inoperculate, vernal discomycete on Picea cones, with ellipsoid, non-septate spores.


Species example:


Piceomphale bulgarioides - fruit-bodies, hairs*, paraphyses*, ascus bases*, spores*
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 4363

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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