The genus Ceracea was established by Cragin (Bull. Washburn Coll. Lab. Nat. Hist. 1: 82. 1884) on the basis of a single col? lection which consisted of a waxy incrustation covering a cluster of pilei of a pore fungus, referred to as apparently P. versicolor/' The essential characters in Cragin's generic description were the ef? fused, waxy habit and the mostly bifurcate sporophores. In the description of the type species, C. vernicosa, the spores are said to be borne at the apices of the basidia. The clear in?
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