MycoKey : the genus Xerotrema

Generic short diagnoses: A small, immersed to partly erumpent, ± tough, dark brown to black discomycete on wood, with 1-spored asci and huge, ellipsoid, hyaline spores with a muriform septation.


Species example:

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