Tremella compacta

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Tremella compacta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Tremellales
Family: Tremellaceae
Genus: Tremella
Species:
T. compacta
Binomial name
Tremella compacta
Möller (1895)

Tremella compacta is a species of fungus in the order Tremellales. It produces large, ochraceous yellow, compactly lobed, cartilaginous-gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on dead branches of broadleaved trees. It was originally described from Brazil and is distributed in northern South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

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Taxonomy

The species was first published in 1895 by German mycologist Alfred Möller based on a collection from Blumenau. As a probable parasite of Stereum fruit bodies, Tremella compacta belongs in the genus Naematelia , but the species has not as yet undergone DNA sequencing to confirm this.

Description

Fruit bodies are tough-gelatinous, compactly lobed to cerebriform (brain-like), 35 to 60 mm across, the lobes hollow, ochraceous to apricot or pale orange-brown when fresh, drying hard and rigid. Microscopically, the hyphae have clamp connections. The basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa) and normally stalked, 2 to 4-celled, 10 to 16 by 7.5 to 14 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid, smooth, 7 to 9.5 by 5 to 6.5 μm. [1] [2]

Similar species

Naematelia aurantia occurs on Stereum hirsutum on broadleaved trees but typically has more leaf-like lobes and is bright yellow to yellow-orange. [3]

Habitat and distribution

Tremella compacta occurs on broadleaved trees and appears to be a parasite on fruit bodies of Stereum species. The type collection was from Brazil, but it has also been reported from Belize, [2] the Dominican Republic, [4] Trinidad, Puerto Rico, [1] Colombia, and Venezuela. [5]

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References

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