Botryobasidium piliferum
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Botryobasidium piliferum is a mushroom species from the family of grape basidia relatives (Botryobasidiaceae). It forms resupinate, cobweb-like fruiting bodies thatgrowon dead wood . The range of Botryobasidium piliferum includes the West African Gabon . An anamorph of the species is not yet known.
features
Macroscopic features
Botryobasidium piliferum has ash-gray to old yellowish, spider-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 piliferum is monomitic, i.e. it consists exclusively of generative hyphae that branch out at right angles. The basal hyphae are yellowish, thick-walled, mostly 9–15 µm wide and not encrusted. The 9–12 basal and 4–6 µm thick subhymenial hyphae are sub hyaline , strongly branched and thin-walled. Occasionally, cystids of 50–70 × 4.5–6 µm are formed. The species does not have buckles . The mushroom initially has slightly sub-cylindrical, later tapered basidiols . The mostly six-pore basidia of the species grow in nests, are 9–12 × 5–5.5 µm in size, are thickened in the middle and simply septate at the base. The spores are frontally ellipsoidal, laterally subcylindrical to subnavicular in shape and mostly 4.5–7 × 2–3 µm in size. They are smooth, hyaline, and thin-walled.
distribution
The known distribution of Botryobasidium piliferum only includes the type locality in Gabon .
ecology
Botryobasidium piliferum is a saprobiont that colonizes dead wood . The substrates have not yet been determined, the species has always been found in coastal biotopes.
literature
- Jean Boidin, Gérard Gilles: Basidiomycetes Botryohypochnoidea du Gabon. In: Mycotaxon 14 (1), 1982. pp. 240-304.