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Omphalina Quél.

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Omphalina Quél. (1886)
Omphalina Quél.

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Quél.
Quél.
1886
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Omphalina

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Omphalina

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Omphalina Quél.

Thallus of dark green to bright emerald green, gelatinous globules (to 0.1-0.2 mm diam.) or forming a ± continuous, gelatinous mat on exposed, damp soil. Each globule composed of clustered, elongate, green algal cells () surrounded by a sheath of fungal hyphae. Fruiting bodies an erect toadstool. Pileus small (usually under 2.5 mm broad but up to 4.5 mm), convex to plane, becoming depressed, sometimes infundibuliform, margin usually incurved at first, often striate when moist, surface hygrophanous or subhygrophanous, glabrous or fibrillose or scaly, colours bright or dull, mostly yellow or orange. Context very thin to thin, pliant to soft, fragile or brittle, watery when fresh. Lamellae distinctly decurrent, often slightly thickened and waxy, subdistant to distant, often arched, whitish or brightly coloured with shades of yellow or orange. Stipe slender, 3-6 mm wide, watery and soft or brittle, not viscid, often translucent, hollow or ± solid, surface glabrous or fibrillose to pubescent or hirsute, concolorous with lamellae of pileus or duller. Spores not amyloid, smooth, white in deposit or yellowish to pale salmon pink. Clamp connections present or absent.

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Omphalina Quél.
Omphalina Quél.

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Omphalina Quél.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1888a286-86e6-4ab4-a0a6-2a9552e2d68a
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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