Aleurodiscus amorphus
Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3: 429. 1888.
Common Name: none
For descriptions see Eriksson & Ryvarden and Núñez & Ryvarden
On branches of Abies and Picea. Wide distribution in North America & Europe.
Unknown, inconsequential.
Although Aleurodiscus amorphus could be confused with a cup fungus (ascomycete), this basidiomycete can be distinguished by its orangish, more or less cup shaped sporocarp and its large, amyloid, echinulate, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid basidiospores.
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