MycoKey : the genus Urceolella

Generic short diagnoses: Small, sessile, sometimes barrel-shaped, inoperculate discomycetes with cylindrical paraphyses and thick-walled, glassy, non-amyloid hairs, which loose their glassiness in 5 % KOH.


Species example:


Urceolella carestiana - DK: bregne-kugleskive
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-99.186

The picture originates from the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.
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