Tremella iduensis
| Tremella iduensis | |
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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. iduensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tremella iduensis Kobayasi (1939)
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Tremella iduensis is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces yellow, cornute-frondose, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi, probably species of Hypoxylon on dead attached and recently fallen branches of broad-leaved trees. It has been recorded from Japan and China. Tremella flava, described from Taiwan, may be a synonym.[1]
Taxonomy[edit]
Tremella iduensis was first published in 1939 by Japanese mycologist Yosio Kobayasi.
Description[edit]
Fruit bodies are gelatinous, bright yellow, up to 2.5 cm (1 in) across, and branched, with cornute (horn-like) fronds. Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 17 to 18 by 12 to 13 μm. The basidiospores are ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, 8.5 to 9.5 by 7.5 to 8.5 μm.[2]
Similar species[edit]
Tremella flava was described from Taiwan as "resembling T. iduensis" but differing in the size of its basidiospores (7 to 9 by 5 to 6.5 μm) and basidia.[3] It has been suggested it may be a later synonym of T. iduensis.[1] Other yellow Tremella species are lobed or foliaceous and lack horn-like fronds.
Habitat and distribution[edit]
Tremella iduensis is a parasite on lignicolous fungi, probably species of Hypoxylon.[3] It was originally described from Castanopsis sieboldii and is found on dead, attached or recently fallen branches of broad-leaved trees.
The species is currently known from Japan and China.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Bandoni RJ, Boekhout T (2011). Chapter 12 - Tremella Persoon (1794), in Kurtzman et al., The Yeasts (Fifth Edition). Elsevier. pp. 1567–1590. ISBN 9780444521491.
- ^ Kobayasi Y (1939). "On the genus Tremella and its allies from Japan". Science report of the Tokyo Bunrika Diagaku. 4: 1–26.
- ^ a b Chen C-J. (1998). Morphological and molecular studies in the genus Tremella. Berlin: J. Cramer. p. 225. ISBN 978-3-443-59076-5.
- ^ "University of British Columbia Fungal Herbarium". Retrieved 2023-05-09.