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Octospora
Scientific name: Octospora
Octospora
Scientific name: Octospora
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Description
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Individual taxa may be sessile to shortly stipitate, cupulate, discoid (disc-shaped), pulvinate (cushion-shaped), or with turbinate (turban-shaped) epigeous octospora. Also, taxa may be sub-hypogeous to hypogeous with closed, folded, or solid octospora. Octospora may range in size from less than 1.02 mm up to 11 cm diameter, and may be brightly colored due to carotenoid pigments. Genera of the octospora lack unifying macroscopic or microscopic characteristics; this lack of uniting characters has led various authors to propose a variety of classification schemes.
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Species of Octospora
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Scientific Classification
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