Tremella samoensis

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Tremella samoensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Tremellales
Family: Tremellaceae
Genus: Tremella
Species:
T. samoensis
Binomial name
Tremella samoensis
LLoyd (1919)
Synonyms

Naematelia cinnabarina Mont. (1848)Tremella cinnabarina(Mont.) Pat. (1900) (nom. illegit.)

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Tremella samoensis is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces red to orange-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 Samoa and the Philippines, but is widely distributed in the region.

Taxonomy

Tremella samoensis was first published in 1919 by American mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd, based on a collection he made in Samoa together with material he received from the Philippines. [1] Reviewing the species, Robert Bandoni considered it synonymous with the earlier Naematelia cinnabarina Mont., described from Tahiti in 1848. [2] The combination in Tremella, as T. cinnabarina (Mont.) Pat., is however illegitimate since the name had already been used for a different species.

Description

Fruit bodies are firm, gelatinous, partly bright red, partly orange to yellow, up to 5 cm (2 in) across, and lobed to frondose, the lobes sometimes horn-like. Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 12 to 18 by 8 to 12 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid, smooth, 6 to 8 by 4 to 6 μm. [3] [4]

Similar species

Tremella flammea , described from Japan by Yosio Kobayasi, is similarly coloured (scarlet to orange) but is said to be effused-lobate and have slightly smaller spores (5 to 5.5 by 4 to 5 μm). [5] It is not clear if it is a distinct species. Kobayasi later made a collection in New Britain which he identified as T. cinnabarina and considered synonymous with Tremella dahliana, which German mycologist Paul Hennings had originally described from the same location. [6] [7]

Other Tremella species with scarlet to orange colours include Tremella dysenterica , originally described from Brazil, Tremella rubromaculata , originally described from Guatemala, and Tremella erythrina , originally described from China.

Habitat and distribution

Tremella samoensis is a parasite on lignicolous fungi, but its host species is unknown, though the original collection is associated with pyrenomycetes. [3] It is found on dead, attached or fallen branches of broad-leaved trees.

The species was described from Samoa and has been reported from the Philippines, [1] Tahiti, [3] New Britain (as T. cinnabarina), [6] China, [5] Japan, [5] and the Russian Far East. [4]

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Tremella yokohamensis is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces white, foliaceous, gelatinous basidiocarps and is parasitic on other fungi on dead wood of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Japan.

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References

  1. 1 2 Lloyd CG (1919). "Mycological Notes 60" (PDF). Mycological Writings. 5 (1): 875.
  2. ↑ Bandoni RJ. (1958). "Some tremellaceous fungi in the C.G. Lloyd collection". Lloydia. 21: 137–151.
  3. 1 2 3 Chen C-J (1998). Morphological and molecular studies in the genus Tremella. Berlin: Cramer. p. 225. ISBN   3-443-59076-4.
  4. 1 2 Malysheva VF, Malysheva EF, Bulakh EM (2015). "The genus Tremella (Tremellales, Basidiomycota) in Russia with description of two new species and proposal of one nomenclatural combination". Phytotaxa. 238: 40–70. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.238.1.2.
  5. 1 2 3 Kobayasi Y (1939). "On the genus Tremella and its allies from Japan". Science report of the Tokyo Bunrika Diagaku. 4: 1–26.
  6. 1 2 Kobayasi Y (1973). "Enumeration of the tremellaceous fungi collected in New Guinea". Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. 16: 639–655.
  7. ↑ Kobayasi Y (1974). "Three gelly fungi collected in New Guinea (sic)". Journ. Jap. Bot. 49: 225–228.


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