Guepiniopsis suecica
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Guepiniopsis buccina is a mushroom from the family of the gelatinous tears (Dacrymycetaceae). It lives saprobion table on dead branches and twigs of conifers . The gelatinous, pillow-shaped fruiting bodies appear in spring and summer. The species has so far been found in various European countries.
features
Macroscopic features
Guepiniopsis suecica initially has pillow or pustule-shaped fruit bodies that become convex with age. They are 3–8 mm wide and 1.5–3 mm high. When fresh, they are bright lemon yellow and smooth, after a few days of drying they become wavy and wrinkled and the edge becomes notched. The consistency of the fruit body texture is firm, gelatinous. Usually they grow in groups of five or six.
Microscopic features
The hyphae of Guepiniopsis suecica have buckles . The spores and septa of the species are thin-walled; the spores become 6–7 µm wide and have no longitudinal septa .
Species delimitation
Outwardly, young specimens of G. suecica are very similar to the closely related species G. chrysocoma and G. alpina . However, they can only be clearly distinguished from one another under the microscope.
ecology
Guepiniopsis buccina is a saprobiont that can be found on dead wood . The species prefers the branches of pine ( Pinus spp.) As a substrate .
distribution
Guepiniopsis suecica is so far only known from Europe. There the species was found in Uppland in western Sweden (its type locality ), in the German Black Forest and in North Tyrol in Austria . Overall, it is considered very rare and was only described in 1973 .
source
- German Josef Krieglsteiner (Ed.): The large mushrooms of Baden-Württemberg . Volume 1: General Part. Stand mushrooms: jelly, bark, prick and pore mushrooms. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3528-0 .