MycoKey : the genus Thanatephorus

Generic short diagnoses: Thin fluffy, hyphomycete-like resupinates with repeating spores, one-celled basidia, that may have from one to eight, long, more or less inflated sterigmata.


Species example:


Thanatephorus cucumeris
Photo and © Gérard Trichies
France, GT 00 154

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