Tremella rubromaculata
| Tremella rubromaculata | |
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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. rubromaculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Tremella rubromaculata Lowy (1964)
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Tremella rubromaculata is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces reddish orange, lobed, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from Guatemala.
Taxonomy[edit]
Tremella rubromaculata was first published in 1964 by American mycologist Bernard Lowy based on a collection made in Guatemala.
Description[edit]
Fruit bodies are gelatinous, bright reddish orange, up to 2.5 cm (1 in) across, and lobed. Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 17 to 21 by 8 to 11 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid, smooth, 8 to 10.5 by 6 to 8 µm.[1]
Similar species[edit]
Tremella dysenterica, described from Brazil, is bi-coloured (yellow and reddish orange) and similarly lobed to subfrondose, but has smaller basidia and smaller spores (5.5 to 8.5 by 4 to 5.5 μm).[2] Elsewhere, Tremella erythrina is similarly coloured, but only known from China.[3]
Habitat and distribution[edit]
Tremella rubromaculata is a parasite on lignicolous fungi, but its host species is unknown. It is found on dead, attached or fallen branches of broad-leaved trees.
The species was described from Guatemala and has also been reported from Brazil[1] and Mexico.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Lowy B (1971). Flora Neotropica 6: Tremellales. New York: Hafner. ISBN 0-89327-220-5.
- ^ Roberts P, de Meijer AA (1997). "Macromycetes from the state of Paraná, Brazil. 6. Sirobasidiaceae & Tremellaceae". Mycotaxon. 64: 261–283.
- ^ Zhao Y, Liu X, Bai F (2019). "Four new species of Tremella (Tremellales, Basidiomycota) based on morphology and DNA sequence data". MycoKeys. 47: 75–95. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.47.29180. PMC 6403202.
- ^ González AP, Acosta EA, Olivas AV, Jáuregui A, Blanco JC, Garza RV (2011). Los macromicetos del jardín botánico de ECOSUR Dr. Alfredo Barrera Marín Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo. Mexico City: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad. p. 108. ISBN 978-607-7607-42-7.