Tremella erythrina
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| Tremella erythrina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Tremellaceae |
| Genus: | Tremella |
| Species: | T. erythrina |
| Binomial name | |
| Tremella erythrina Xin Zhan Liu & F.Y. Bai (2019) | |
Tremella erythrina is a species of fungus in the family Tremellaceae. It produces orange to red, lobate to foliaceous, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on wood of broad-leaved trees. It was originally described from China.
Tremella erythrina was first published in 2019 by Chinese mycologists Xin-Zhan Liu and Feng-Yan Bai based on collections made in Guangxi Province, China. The species is considered to be close to Tremella mesenterica, the type species of the genus, and hence belongs in Tremella sensu stricto.[1]
Description
Fruit bodies are gelatinous, red to brownish orange, up to 18 mm across, cerebriform (brain-like) to foliaceous, with undulating, hollow lobes. Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (globose to broadly ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 12 to 18 by 13 to 19 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid, smooth, 7 to 10 by 5 to 7 μm.[1]