MycoKey : the genus Ramsbottomia

Generic short diagnoses: Minute to small, orange operculate discomycetes with smooth apothecia, and with globose to subglobose, echinulate spores. On naked (wet) soil.


Species example:


Ramsbottomia macracantha
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-00.074

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