MycoKey : the genus Rhytisma

Generic short diagnoses: Immersed discomycetes (tar spot fungi) in leaves of trees or shrubs, opening with one or several, ± irregular slits to expose greyish to buffish discs; with filiform to ± clavate, 0-septate spores.


Species example:


Rhytisma acerinum - DK: ahorn-rynkeplet UK: Sycamore Tarspot
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-95.077

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