Tremella coffeicolor

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Tremella coffeicolor
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Tremellales
Family: Tremellaceae
Genus: Tremella
Species:
T. coffeicolor
Binomial name
Tremella coffeicolor
(Berk.) P. Roberts (2004)
Synonyms
  • Hirneola coffeicolorBerk. (1876)
  • Auricularia coffeicolor (Berk.) Farl. (1905)
  • Tremella auricularia Möller (1895)

Tremella coffeicolor is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces brown, lobed to foliaceous, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) 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.

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Taxonomy

Tremella coffeicolor was first published, as Hirneola coffeicolor, in 1876 by British mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley based on a collection made in Bermuda. [1] In 2004, British mycologist Peter Roberts re-examined the type specimen and transferred the species to the genus Tremella . Roberts considered Tremella auricularia, described from Brazil in 1895, to be a later synonym. [2]

Description

Fruit bodies are gelatinous, pale to mid-brown, several centimetres across, and lobed to foliaceous, the lobes sometimes ear-like. Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 18 to 26 by 12 to 17 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid to oblong, smooth, 10 to 12.5 by 8 to 9 μm. [3] [2]

Similar species

Fruit bodies of Phaeotremella frondosa and P. foliacea are similarly coloured, but are typically more frondose and, microscopically, have smaller basidia and basidiospores.

Habitat and distribution

Tremella coffeicolor is a parasite on lignicolous fungi, but its host is unknown. It was originally described from bark of Coffea . [1]

The species was originally collected in Bermuda [1] and has been recorded from the Azores, [2] Cuba, [2] Trinidad, [2] Jamaica, [4] Puerto Rico, and (as Tremella auricularia) from Brazil. [3] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Berkeley MJ (1877). "Enumeration of fungi collected during the expedition of H.M.S. 'Challenger'". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 15: 48–53. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1876.tb00220.x.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Roberts PJ, Spooner BM (2004). "Heterobasidiomycetes from the Azores". Kew Bulletin. 59: 95–101. doi:10.2307/4111079.
  3. 1 2 Bandoni RJ, Oberwinkler F (1983). "On some species of Tremella described by Alfred Möller". Mycologia. 75 (5): 854–863. doi:10.2307/3792776. JSTOR   3792776.
  4. ↑ Roberts P (2006). "Caribbean Heterobasidiomycetes: 2. Jamaica". Mycotaxon. 96: 83–107.
  5. ↑ Roberts P, de Meijer AAR (1997). "Macromycetes from the state of Paraná, Brazil. 6. Sirobasidiaceae & Tremellaceae". Mycotaxon. 64: 261–283.


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