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Earth wax crust
Earth wax crust (Sebacina incrustans)

Earth wax crust ( Sebacina incrustans )

Systematics
Class : Agaricomycetes
Subclass : insecure position (incertae sedis)
Order : Wax crusty (Sebacinales)
Family : Wax crust relatives (Sebacinaceae)
Genre : Wax Crusts ( Sebacina )
Type : Earth wax crust
Scientific name
Sebacina incrustans
( Pers. ) Tul. & C. Tul.

The earth crust wax ( Sebacina incrustans ) is a fungal art from the family of the wax crust relatives (Sebacinaceae) and belongs to the class of Agaricomycetes.

features

Macroscopic features

The earth-wax crust forms resupinate , waxy, white to pale yellow fruiting bodies , which can be shaped very differently. Its edge is often lashed. It often grows around parts of plants such as mosses and blades of grass, which is why it can sometimes be mistaken for corals .

Microscopic features

The egg-shaped spores are 10-12.5 × 6-7 micrometers in size. They are smooth, hyaline and inamyloid , which means they cannot be stained with iodine . The hyphae do not have a buckle .

distribution

The species is widespread. It is found across Europe and North America, but it is also known from Asia (China, Japan) and Australia.

ecology

The earth-wax crust lives on the ground or rotten wood. They often cover plants such as mosses or blades of grass (incrusting), which explains the Latin species name. Soils rich in nutrients are preferred in moist deciduous forests. The species seems to form ectomycorrhiza obligatorily , since it cannot grow in culture.

Systematics

The earth-wax crust was first described by Persoon in 1796 as Corticium incrustans . The brothers Edmond & Charles Tulasne put the type in 1871 on the current name. In 2013 it was shown that the species Sebacina epigaea and Sebacina incrustans are not monophyletic and represent cryptic species .

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literature

  • Svengunnar Ryman, Ingmar Holmåsen: Mushrooms. Over 1,500 species of mushrooms are described in detail and photographed in their natural surroundings . Bernhard Thalacker, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-87815-043-1 , p. 66 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Svengunnar Ryman, Ingmar Holmåsen: Mushrooms. Over 1,500 species of mushrooms are described in detail and photographed in their natural surroundings . Bernhard Thalacker, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-87815-043-1 , p. 66 .
  2. ↑ GBIF portal. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Michael Weiß, Marc-André Selosse, Karl-Heinz Rexer, Alexander Urban, Franz Oberwinkler: Sebacinales: a hitherto overlooked cosm of heterobasidiomycetes with a broad mycorrhizal potential . In: Mycological Research . tape 108 , no. 9 , 2004, p. 1003-1010 , doi : 10.1017 / S0953756204000772 .
  4. ↑ Index Fungorum Species Fungorum, accessed October 3, 2015
  5. Jump up ↑ Kai Riess, Franz Oberwinkler, Robert Bauer, Sigisfredo Garnica: High genetic diversity at the regional scale and possible speciation in Sebacina epigaea and S. incrustans . In: BMC Evolutionary Biology . tape 13 , 2013, doi : 10.1186 / 1471-2148-13-102 .

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