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 Tremella fuciformis
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Caption: Tremella fuciformis (RR409)
Owner: P.R. Johnston | 
Caption: Tremella fuciformis: f, basidia; g, spores, | 
Caption: Tremella fuciformis
Owner: Nils Hallenberg | 
Caption: 95/136
Owner: Peter Buchanan | |
Article: McNabb, R.F.R. (1966). New Zealand Tremellales - II. New Zealand Journal of Botany 4(4): 533-545 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Fructifications gelatinous, at first irregularly
pustulate, becoming foliaceous, to 5 cm in longest dimension, to 3.5 cm high,
lobes caespitose, thin, margins crenate or occasionally incised, undulate, semi-translucent
to opaque white when fresh, drying pallid creamy yellow. Internal hyphae slightly
thick-walled, hyaline, clamp connections present. Hymenium amphigenous, composed
of basidia; probasidia broadly elliptical, obovate or subglobose, with basal
clamp connections, borne on fertile hyphae with short, broad, irregular cells,
10.5-16.7 x 8.7-13 µm, becoming longitudinally cruciate-septate; sterigmata
cylindrical, to 60 x 3µm, occasionally expanded apically to 4.5 µm. Basidiospores
broadly ovate, often flattened on one side, hyaline, apiculate, 6.8-9.5 x 4.8-6.2
µm. Germination by repetition. Hymenial conidia not seen.
Habitat: >Angiosperm bark and wood.
Notes: New Zealand specimens agree closely with
Bandoni's (1958, p. 144) description of the type, although hymenial conidia
described by Bandoni and Olive (1948, p. 592) was not observed.
Tremella fuciformis is the only white, foliose
Tremella known to occur in this country. It was recorded from New Zealand by
Lloyd (1921, p. 1073).
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