MycoKey : the genus Polaroscyphus

Generic short diagnoses: An arctic, cylindrical to cup-shaped, foliicolous, inoperculate discomycete with 4-spored asci, with filiform, fragmenting spores and cylindrical to clavate, spiny, non-septate hairs.


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