MycoKey : the genus Zygogloea

Generic short diagnoses: An invisible auricularioid jelly fungus, that parasitizes Exidia/Myxarium nucleata. It produces twinned ”zygoconida” on conidiophores form the same hyphae, that give rise to helicoid 4-celled basidia, that produce ± curved, 0-3 septate spores.


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