KEY TO APHYLLOPHORALES 



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Eeceptacle incrusting, variously branched, \ 

 lobed, or effused, fibrillosely floccose, soft. I Cristdla. 

 Spores white, echinulate. Growing on fallen | (Thelephorap.p.) 

 twigs, and mosses J 



[Receptacle resupinate, soft, floccose. Hy-^ 

 menium granular, or smooth, floccose. Flesh I \Hypochnus. 

 coloured. Spores coloured, echinulate, orj (Tomentdla.)] 

 angular] / 



[Like Hypochnus, but spores violet, smooth] [Hypochnella.] 



[Receptacle resupinate, effused, flocculose-j 

 pulverulent, Hypochnus-like. Spores straws [Jaapia.] 

 coloured, subelliptical, hyaline-appendiculate] j 



[Receptacle resupinate, waxy. Hymenium] 



granular, or smooth. Spores coloured, smooth, f- [Coniophora.] 



No cystidia] 



Like Corticium, but with prominent, hyaline, 

 or subhyaline cystidia in the hymenium or 

 subhymenial tissues, which are generally L Peniophora. 

 thick walled, or incrusted with crystalline de- 

 posits. Spores white, rarely slightly coloured/ 



[Like Coniophora, but with cystidia] [Coniophorella.] 



CYPHELLACEAE. 



Receptacles sessile, scattered, crowded, or-. 



confluent, coriaceous-gelatinous. Hymenium Cytidia. 



smooth, becoming wrinkled, or veined. Spores f (Auriculariopsis.) 



white, or pale 



Receptacles stipitate, or sessile, scattered, or^i 



crowded, membranaceous, or waxy. Hyme- > Cyphella. 



nium smooth, or veined. Spores white J 



Receptacles sessile, seated on a superficial,^ 

 felt-like, then floccose and fugacious myce-l , . 

 Hum, gregarious, or fasciculate. Hymenium j 

 smooth. Spores white 



Receptacles sessile, more or less crowded, dis-^j 



tinct, seated on, or immersed in an effused, I 



membranaceous, or floccose stroma. Spores j 



white 



Like Cyphella, but spores coloured, smooth,! 



or echinulate J 



