MycoKey : the genus Sclerotinia

Generic short diagnoses: Stipitate, ± brown, inoperculatae discomycetes, with an outer excipulum of globose to angular cells, mostly arising from well defined sclerotia, often in soil among roots.


Species example:


Sclerotinia trifoliorum - DK: ærte-knoldskive - fruit-bodies, ascus*, spores*
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 2434

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