Tremella vesiculosa
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Tremellaceae |
| Genus: | Tremella |
| Species: | T. vesiculosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Tremella vesiculosa McNabb (1990)
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Tremella vesiculosa is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces light brown, lobed, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from New Zealand.
Taxonomy[edit]
Tremella vesiculosa was first published in 1990 by Robert Bandoni and Peter Buchanan, based on collections and notes made by the late New Zealand mycologist R.F.R. McNabb.[1]
Description[edit]
Fruit bodies are firm, gelatinous, brick-red to reddish brown, up to 5 cm (2 in) across, and lobed, the lobes thick and inflated (vesiculose). Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (subglobose to broadly clavate, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 11.5 to 20 by 8 to 12.5 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid, smooth, 8 to 9 by 5.5 to 7 μm.[1]
Similar species[edit]
Phaeotremella species are both brown and gelatinous, but have lobes that are comparatively thin, uninflated, and frondose. Tremella laurisilvae, described from the Canary Islands, is similar but geographically distant.[2]
Habitat and distribution[edit]
Tremella vesiculosa is a parasite on lignicolous fungi, but its host species is unknown, though the original collections were associated with xylariaceous fungi. It is found on dead, attached or fallen branches of broad-leaved trees.[1]
The species was described from New Zealand and has been reported from Australia.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Bandoni RJ, Buchanan PK (1990). "Two new species of Tremella from New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 28 (4): 451–454. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1990.10412328.
- ^ Kout J, Quijada L, Beltrán-Tejera E (2015). "A new species of Tremella from Macaronesia". Phytotaxa. 226 (1). doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.226.1.7.