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A genus of ascomycetes that parasitize the fruit bodies of other fungi, covering gills or pores with a colored, mold-like layer that bears small embedded perithecia. It includes the lobster mushroom, H. lactifluorum, and H. luteovirens on Russula.
Mycoparasitic; forms a subiculum over host fruit bodies; perithecia small, embedded; spores often fusiform and warty or apiculate, septation varying among species; colors white, yellow, green, orange or red depending on species.
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