MycoKey : the genus Plectania

Generic short diagnoses: Medium sized, blackish operculate discomycetes with orange-brown, felty margin and outside. On coniferous debris in late spring.


Species example:


Plectania melastoma - DK: rustbæger - asci, spores, fruit-bodies
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany

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