MycoKey : the genus Tremella

Generic short diagnoses: Strongly gelatinous, variously folded and coloured or ± internal mycoparasitic gelly fungi with (1-)2-4-spored, longitudinally divided phragmobasidia, producing globose to ellipsoid, repetitive spores.


Species example:


Tremella encephala - DK: fyrre-bævresvamp - growing on Stereum sanguinolentum
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-97.397

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