Paragalactinia Van Vooren

MycoBank number: MB 835925; Index Fungorum number: IF 835925; Facesoffungi number: FoF14400;

Type-species: Peziza succosa Berk.

Etymology: From ancient Greek παρά (pará), “close to”, and Galactinia, a close genus.

Description: Ascomata hypogeous or epigeous; apothecial species sessile and cupulate. Flesh-producing watery latex, becoming yellowsih, greenish or bluish in air. Asci operculate, 8-spored, mainly without crozier, wall weakly bluing in contact with an iodine solution, a little more intensely at the top (WT type). Paraphyses containing a brownish vacuolar pigment. Medullary excipulum containing laticiferous hyphae. Ectal excipulum of textura globulosa, with large cells. Ascospores uni- or biguttulate, warted. Species forming ectomycorrhizas.

Species

  • Peziza succosa