Plate 2. Common wood rot
or decay fungi: 1. Daldinia concentrica, (a) section through stroma of fruiting
body, (b) enlarged view of perithecia embedded in stroma, (c) asci containing
eight ascospores, (d) ascospores; 2-6, (a) sporophores showing gill structure,
(b) section through sorophore; 7. (a) sporophores, (b) section through sporophore;
8. (left) microscopic view of pores with basidia and basidiospores, (right)
close-up of basidia forming basidiospores. The figures are not drawn to scale
(Artwork by Lenore Gray).
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