MycoKey : the genus Proliferodiscus

Generic short diagnoses: A narrowly attached to short stipitate, often proliferating, inoperculate discomycete on hardwood with orange to buff hymenium and a dark outside with greyish hairs.


Species example:


Proliferodiscus pulveraceus - DK: askegrå frynseskive - hairs, ascus and paraphyses, ascus topÜ (lugol), spores
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 1710

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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