Tremella diaporthicola
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| Tremella diaporthicola | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Tremellaceae |
| Genus: | Tremella |
| Species: | T. diaporthicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Tremella diaporthicola Ginns et M.N.L. Lefebvre (1993) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Sebacina globispora Whelden (1935) | |
Tremella diaporthicola is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces hyaline to pale grey, pustular, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on Diaporthe and similar species on dead branches of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from the US and has also been recorded from Ukraine.
The species was first published in 1935 by American mycologist Roy Whelden who placed it in the genus Sebacina.[1] It was subsequently considered a synonym of Tremella tubercularia,[2] which British mycologist Derek Reid later renamed Tremella globispora.[3] Since the latter species has hyphae with clamp connections and the present species lacks clamp connections, Sebacina globispora was removed from the synonymy of Tremella globispora and given the new name Tremella diaporthicola in 1993.[4]
Description
Fruit bodies are gelatinous, pustular, and hyaline (colourless) becoming greyish, up to 12 mm across. Microscopically, the hyphae lack clamp connections. The basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 15 to 20 by 12 to 16 μm. The basidiospores are globose, smooth, 7.5 to 8 μm in diameter.[1]