Botryobasidium pandani
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Botryobasidium pandani is a mushroom species from the family of grape basidia relatives (Botryobasidiaceae). It forms resupinate, cobweb-like fruit bodies , which usuallygrowon dead wood of screw trees and coconut palms . The range of Botryobasidium pandani includes the West African Gabon . An anamorph of the species is not yet known.
features
Macroscopic features
Botryobasidium pandani has light gray to yellowish, spinel-like and thin fruiting bodies that grow resupinate (i.e. completely adjacent) on their substrate and appear slightly reticulate under the magnifying glass.
Microscopic features
As with all grape basidia , the hyphae structure of Botryobasidium pandani is monomitic, i.e. it consists exclusively of generative hyphae that branch out at right angles. The basal hyphae are either yellow or hyaline , thick-walled, usually 6-11 µm wide and not encrusted. The 5–8 µm thick subhymenial hyphae are highly branched and thin-walled. All hyphae are simply septate. The species has neither cystids nor buckles . The mushroom initially has slightly spherical, later elongated basidiols . The five- to eight-pore basidia of the species grow in nests, are 13-17 × 7-8 µm in size, are thickened in the middle and simply septate at the base. The spores are shaped like an egg at the front and almond-like at the side and are mostly 8–11 × 4–5.2 µm in size. They are smooth, hyaline, and thin-walled.
distribution
The known distribution of Botryobasidium pandani only includes the type locality in Gabon .
ecology
Botryobasidium pandani is a saprobiont that colonizes dead wood . The substrates include Pandanus candelabrum and coconut palms ( Cocos nucifera ).
literature
- Jean Boidin, Gérard Gilles: Basidiomycetes Botryohypochnoidea du Gabon. In: Mycotaxon 14 (1), 1982. pp. 240-304.