MycoKey : the genus Protohydnum

Generic short diagnoses: Hydnoids with more or less free hanging greyish white spines; without branched hyphidia, basidia with longitudinal walls. Compare with Stypella and Mucronella.


Species example:


Protohydnum piceicola - DK: bævrepig
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe
Sweden, TL-12628

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