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Tremella compacta
Tremella compacta is a species of fungus in the order Tremellales. It produces large, ochraceous yellow, compactly lobed, cartilaginous-gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on dead branches of broadleaved trees. It was originally described from Brazil and is distributed in northern South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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Description
Fruit bodies are tough-gelatinous, compactly lobed to cerebriform (brain-like), 35 to 60 mm across, the lobes hollow, ochraceous to apricot or pale orange-brown when fresh, drying hard and rigid. Microscopically, the hyphae have clamp connections. The basidia are tremelloid (ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa) and normally stalked, 2 to 4-celled, 10 to 16 by 7.5 to 14 μm. The basidiospores are ellipsoid, smooth, 7 to 9.5 by 5 to 6.5 μm.
Range & habitat
Tremella compacta occurs on broadleaved trees and appears to be a parasite on fruit bodies of Stereum species. The type collection was from Brazil, but it has also been reported from Belize, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Venezuela.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Habitat and distribution”
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