Ulocolla pinicola
| Ulocolla pinicola | |
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| Ulocolla pinicola on pine, Canada | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Auriculariales |
| Family: | Auriculariaceae |
| Genus: | Ulocolla |
| Species: | U.pinicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Ulocolla pinicola (Peck) Spirin (2026) | |
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Ulocolla pinicola is a species of fungus in the family Auriculariaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are gelatinous, reddish brown, button-shaped at first then often coalescing and becoming irregularly effused. It is a saprotroph, growing on dead branches of pine and other conifers in North America.
Taxonomy
[edit ]The species was first described in 1886 from New York as Tremella pinicola by mycologist Charles Horton Peck and placed in Exidia by William Chambers Coker in 1920.[1] Recent molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has shown that the species belongs in a clade distinct from Exidia and is referable to the genus Ulocolla .[2]
Description
[edit ]The basidiocarps of U. pinicola are yellowish to reddish brown, gelatinous, button-shaped at first but later coalescing to form effused, irregular, often brain-like or foliaceous masses up to 5 cm across and 2 cm thick. The surface is smooth.[2]
Microscopic characters
[edit ]The translucent hyphae are 1.0–6.5 μm in diameter, monomitic, branched, thin-walled, and form clamp connections. Hyphae frequently form anastomoses. Basidia are typically 13.5 to 19 μm long, elliptical, and consist of four longitudinally septate cells. Basidiospores are allantoid (sausage shaped), 9 to 13 by 3.5 to 5 μm, with thin, smooth walls.[2]
Similar species
[edit ]Specimens have generally been referred to Exidia saccharina (Ulocolla saccharina ) until recently, but the latter species is only known from Europe.[2] In North America, Exidia crenata produces fruit bodies of similar colour, but occurs on broadleaf trees.[3]
References
[edit ]- ↑ Coker WC (1920). "Notes on the lower basidiomycetes of North Carolina". Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. 35: 113–182.
- 1 2 3 4 Spirin V, Malysheva V, Schoutteten N, Savchenko A, Rivoire B, Olsson J, Læssøe T, Ryvarden L, Grootmyers D, Kulju M, Vlasák J, Vignale MV, Viner I (2026). "Exidia and Exidiopsis (Auriculariales, Basidiomycota): a reconsideration". IMA Fungus. 17. doi:10.3897/imafungus.17.189042.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ↑ Wu F, Zhao Q, Yang ZL, Ye SY, Rivoire B, Dai YC (2020). "Exidia yadongensis, a new edible species from East Asia". Mycosystema. 39: 1203–1214. doi:10.13346/j.mycosystema.200205.