Description of Caryophanon
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The name (misleadingly) refers to 'bright nucleus', forms filaments or trichomes, with only a few species. The type species is Caryophanon latum, described in 1939 by Peshkoff (in Russian) PESHKOFF, 1939.Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 25, 239-242.
