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 simplex - DK: "skiveskorpe-bævresvamp" - growing on Alurodiscus amorphus
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-96.255

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