Fruit bodies of
Lopharia fungi are
crust like, to effused-reflexed (like a crust with the edges curled out to form
caps). The sterile portion of the crust surface is
tomentose, while the spore-bearing surface (the
hymenium) is smooth or
tuberculate. The colour ranges from greyish-white to cream to pale yellowish.
Lopharia has a dimitic
hyphal system, meaning that it contains both generative and skeletal hyphae. The generative hyphae have
clamp connections.
Basidia are club shaped with four
sterigmata, and have a clamp at the base.
Spores are cylindrical to ellipsoid in shape with a smooth surface. They are
hyaline (translucent), and have oily contents. ==Species==