Tremella boraborensis
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| Tremella boraborensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Tremellaceae |
| Genus: | Tremella |
| Species: | T. boraborensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tremella boraborensis L.S.Olive (1958) | |
Tremella boraborensis is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces dark brown to black, lobed to brain-like, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from the Society Islands and has also been recorded from Hawai'i.
Tremella boraborensis was first published in 1958 by the American mycologist Lindsay Shepherd Olive based on collections made in Tahiti and Bora Bora.[1]
Description
Fruit bodies are rubbery-gelatinous, dark brown to black, up to 6 cm (1.5 in) across, and irregularly lobed to cerebriform (brain-like). Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 2 to 4-celled, 14.5 to 30 by 9 to 12.5 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid, smooth, 8 to 11 by 5 to 8 μm.[1]