MycoKey : the genus Tapesina

Generic short diagnoses: A sessile, inoperculate discomycete on Rubus canes seated on a brownish subiculum, with yellow to orange hymenium, brownish outside, large, 3-septate spores and sinuous, septate, basally coloured hairs.


Species example:


Tapesina griseovitellina - ascus top*, conidia and conidiophores*, hair*
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral
HB 7164

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