Tremella brasiliensis

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Tremella brasiliensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Tremellales
Family: Tremellaceae
Genus: Tremella
Species:
T. brasiliensis
Binomial name
Tremella brasiliensis
(Möller) Lloyd (1922)
Synonyms

Tremella lutescens var. brasiliensisMöller (1895)

Tremella brasiliensis is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces yellow, lobed to firmly foliaceous, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Brazil.

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Taxonomy

Tremella brasiliensis was first published in 1895 by German mycologist Alfred Möller as a variety of the superficially similar European species Tremella lutescens (now regarded as a synonym of Tremella mesenterica ). [1] It was raised to species level by American mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd in 1922.

Description

Fruit bodies are gelatinous, whitish to yellow to bright orange-yellow, up to 3 cm (1.5 in) across, and lobed to frondose. Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 25 to 45 by 12 to 30 μm. The basidiospores are globose, smooth, 14 to 20 μm across. [2] [3]

Similar species

Tremella mesenterica , described from Europe but reported from South America, is similarly coloured but has smaller basidia and smaller, ellipsoid spores (10 to 16 by 6 to 9.5 μm). Naematelia aurantia , described from North America but reported from South America, is also bright yellow but is a parasite of Stereum fruit bodies (amongst which it typically occurs) and also has much smaller basidia and spores (5.5 to 9 by 4.5 to 7 μm). [4]

Elsewhere, Tremella philippinensis is equally large-spored and was considered conspecific by Roberts & Spooner. [5] It was originally described as a whitish species or possibly pale yellow, but its status is uncertain. [6] Tremella grandibasidia, described from North America, is another large-spored, yellow species of uncertain status. [6]

Habitat and distribution

Tremella brasiliensis is a parasite on lignicolous fungi, but its host species is unknown. [3] It is found on dead, attached or fallen branches of broad-leaved trees.

The species was described from Brazil and has also been reported from Panama [7] and Costa Rica. [6] Bandoni & Ginns considered that collections from Japan also represented Tremella brasiliensis. [6] Roberts & Spooner treated the species as a synonym of Tremella philippinensis and recorded the latter from Brunei and Australia. [5]

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Tremella dysenterica is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces bright yellow, red-spotted, lobed to subfrondose, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Brazil and has been recorded elsewhere in the neotropics and in Africa.

Tremella fibulifera is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces soft, whitish, lobed to frondose, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Brazil.

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<i>Tremella vesiculosa</i> Species of fungus

Tremella vesiculosa is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces light brown, lobed, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from New Zealand.

Tremella samoensis is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces red to orange-yellow, lobed to firmly foliaceous, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Samoa and the Philippines, but is widely distributed in the region.

Tremella olens is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces soft, whitish, lobed to frondose, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Tasmania.

Tremella rubromaculata is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces reddish orange, lobed, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Guatemala.

Tremella roseolutescens is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces rose-pink to salmon, pustular, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead attached branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Costa Rica.

Tremella salmonea is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces pale orange to salmon, foliose, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on wood of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from China.

Tremella erythrina is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces orange to red, lobate to foliaceous, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on wood of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from China.

Tremella armeniaca is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces orange to apricot, lobed, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Costa Rica.

Tremella coffeicolor is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces brown, lobed to foliaceous, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Bermuda, where it was collected as part of the Challenger expedition.

Tremella versicolor is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces small, pustular, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on the basidiocarps of Peniophora species, a genus of corticioid fungi, on dead attached or recently fallen branches. It was originally described from England.

Tremella mesenterella is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces yellowish to reddish brown, foliose, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on corticioid fungi on dead branches of broadleaf trees and shrubs. It was originally described from Canada.

Phaeotremella translucens is a species of fungus in the family Phaeotremellaceae. It produces small, pustular, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on ascocarps of Lophodermium species on decaying pine needles. It was originally described from Scotland.

References

  1. ↑ Moller A (1895). Protobasidiomyceten. Vol. 8, Botanische Mittheilungen aus den Tropen. Jena: Gustav Fischer.
  2. ↑ Roberts P, de Meijer AAR. (1997). "Macromycetes from the state of Paraná, Brazil. 6. Sirobasidiaceae & Tremellaceae". Mycotaxon. 64: 261–283.
  3. 1 2 Chen C-J (1998). Morphological and molecular studies in the genus Tremella. Berlin: Cramer. p. 225. ISBN   3-443-59076-4.
  4. ↑ Roberts P. (1995). "British Tremella species I: Tremella aurantia and T. mesenterica". Mycologist. 9 (3): 110–114. doi:10.1016/S0269-915X(09)80270-X.
  5. 1 2 Roberts PJ, Spooner BM (1998). "Heterobasidiomycetes from Brunei Darussalam". Kew Bulletin. 97 (3): 631–650. doi:10.2307/4110483.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Bandoni R, Ginns J (1998). "Notes on Tremella mesenterica and allied species". Canadian Journal of Botany. 76 (9): 1544–1557. doi:10.1139/b98-094.
  7. ↑ Lowy B. (1971). Flora Neotropica 6: Tremellales. New York: Hafner. ISBN   0-89327-220-5.


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