MycoKey : the genus Stamnaria

Generic short diagnoses: A stipitate, soft, salmon to rose coloured, inoperculate discomycete on horsetails (Equisetum), with a cylindrical collar at the margin and rather large, ellipsoid to ± almond-shaped spores.


Species example:


Stamnaria persoonii
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
Germany, HB 3186

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