MycoKey : the genus Pisolithus

Generic short diagnoses: Big, short or long stipitate, partly subterranean, ectotrophic gasteromycete with hard chambers and prominent yellow pigmentation in the gleba; with dark, warty spores.


Species example:


Pisolithus arrhizus - DK: farvebold UK: Dyeball
Photo and © Henning Knudsen
Denmark

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