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Tremella tremelloides
Tremella tremelloides is a species of fungus in the order Tremellales. It produces yellowish, brain-like to densely lobed, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on Stereum basidiocarps on dead branches of broadleaved trees. It was originally described from the USA.
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Description
Fruit bodies are gelatinous, hemispherical at first becoming lobed, the lobes often flattened and compact, yellowish, with a denser whitish core when sectioned. Microscopically, the hyphae have clamp connections. The basidia are tremelloid (globose to subglobose, with oblique to vertical septa) and unstalked, 4-celled, 14 to 22 by 12 to 18 μm. The basidiospores are subglobose, smooth, 9 to 12 by 9 to 11 μm.
Range & habitat
Tremella tremelloides is a parasite on fruit bodies of Stereum species on broadleaved trees. The type collection was on oak (Quercus species) and at least some records are from Stereum complicatum. It was described from South Carolina, but has also been reported from Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Habitat and distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1648103.