Cartilaginous glandular
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Cartilaginous glandular ( Exidia cartilaginea ) |
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The cartilaginous glandular ( Exidia cartilaginea ) is a type of fungus of the tremellomycetes from the family of the ear lobe relatives (Auriculariaceae). Its brown-white, cartilaginous-gelatinous fruiting bodies grow in dense, merging groups. They appear all year round, especially in late autumn and spring on rotten dead wood . The species is distributed throughout the temperate and boreal Holarctic .
features
Macroscopic features
The cartilaginous glandular forms cartilaginous-gelatinous fruiting bodies. Your overlying hymenium is flat wavy to ribbed. At first it is hyaline , later it turns ocher or reddish brown and then contrasts with the white, whitish ciliate edge of the fruiting body. The basidiocarpies grow gregarious and dense and merge to form up to 20 cm long and 1–2 mm thick covers.
Microscopic features
The hyphae structure of the cartilaginous glandular is monomitic like all glandular ones , so it consists only of generative hyphae. They are cylindrical, hyaline, and inamyloid .
distribution
The cartilaginous glandle inhabits a holarctic species area that extends from southern Germany via northern Russia and central Asia to Canada. The species prefers boreal and temperate climates . It is rare in the lowlands, then becomes more common in the hilly and lower mountain regions before its occurrence in the mountains decreases again.
ecology
Like other glands, the cartilaginous gland is a saprobiont . It colonizes dead wood in the optimal and final phase of its decomposition. As a rule, it is hardwood, and coniferous wood is only rarely attacked. Often the species is in humid beech forests and wood-rush to find -Eichenwäldern and similar companies, also in ash - alder forests and oak trees - field elm - lowland forests . The fungi are particularly common on linden ( Tilia spp.), Red beeches ( Fagus sylvaticus ) and various oaks ( Quercus spp.).
swell
- 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 .
