MycoKey : the genus Stereum

Generic short diagnoses: Rather thick and tough, resupinate, but more often reflexed or pileate corticiods with smooth hymenophore, and with ellipsoid to allantoid, smooth, amyloid spores, with encrusted tramal cystidia and with either acutocystidia or acanthocystidia.


Species example:


Stereum hirsutum - DK: håret lædersvamp UK: Hairy Curtain Crust
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-01.294

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