Bowl-gelatinous tear
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The cup-jelly-tears ( Dacrymyces tortus ) is a species of fungus from the tear fungus relatives family (Dacrymycetaceae). Like most other gelatinous tears , it forms gelatinous, yellowish fruiting bodies and grows as a saprobiont on dead, debarked coniferous wood. The species is known from the Holarctic and New Zealand and is fructified in the northern hemisphere in mild, damp weather all year round.
features
Macroscopic features
The cup-jelly-tears have pustular fruiting bodies with a firm, gelatinous texture and a single diameter of 0.5–4 mm. The basidiocarpies grow gregarious and dense, but, unlike other gelatinous tears, do not fuse with one another. At first they are convex, later they sink into the middle like a bowl. They are freshly hyaline to yellowish brown, often they show a yellowish tinge. When dry, they form a thin, blackish film on their substrate.
Microscopic features
The hyphae and probasidia of the species are buckled . The thin-walled spores of the species are narrowly elliptical to sausage-shaped. They are 9–15 × 4–5 µm in size, not or up to three times transversely septate and hyaline.
ecology
The cup jelly tear is a saprobiont that grows on dead, preferably debarked, coniferous wood. Substrates include pine ( Pinus spp.) And Norway spruce ( Picea abies ). If the weather is suitable and mild, the species fructifies all year round.
distribution
The Napf gelatinous tear is common in the Holarctic and New Zealand . It has been found in various European countries and the United States and is likely rare everywhere.
swell
- Martin Beazor Ellis, J. Pamela Ellis: Fungi Without Gills (Hymenomycetes and Gasteromycetes): An Identification Handbook . Chapman and Hall, London 1990, ISBN 0-412-36970-2 .
- 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 .