MycoKey : the genus Trichopeziza

Generic short diagnoses: Sessile, inoperculate discomycetes, mostly on herbaceous stems, with long, sometimes yellow or brownish hairs, which are septate, rather thick-walled and with loose granules, and with pointed to lanceolate paraphyses.


Species example:


Trichopeziza mollisima - DK: flødefarvet frynseskive
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-99.031

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