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 fusisporus
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-05.080

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