Liquid gelatinous tear
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Liquid gelatinous tear ( Dacrymyces stillatus ) |
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The Yellow or Deliquescent jelly tear ( Dacrymyces stillatus even Dacry o myces stillatus ) is a very common fungal art from the family dacrymyces relatives (Dacrymycetaceae).
features
Macroscopic features
The fruit bodies are initially button-shaped to cylindrical, 1–2 mm wide and tinted orange to a deep red-yellow. They later turn golden yellow to whitish yellow and grow to 3–6 mm on the substrate . They mostly flow together with neighboring fruiting bodies (name!) And have corresponding humps and furrows. The consistency is soft, gelatinous. When dried, they form a barely recognizable, thin skin of yellow to reddish brown color. The fructifications melt in damp weather.
Microscopic features
The hyphae of the young fruiting bodies form conidia , which are 8–30 × 3–5 micrometers in shape, cylindrical to elliptical, one to multicellular and colorless to yellowish in color. The basidia with the spores only develop in older specimens. The latter are colorless, long-elliptical in shape and have a smooth surface. When ripe, they have up to three septa , where the spores appear constricted. They measure 10-16 (18) × 5-6.5 (7) µm. Sometimes there are smaller, laterally formed secondary pores. The cell walls are clearly thickened in all places. The hyphae do not have buckles .
Species delimitation
Within the genus there are some species whose fruiting bodies resemble the deliquescent gelatinous tear. If it is found together with its orange conidial stage, macroscopic determination is quite reliable. Otherwise the thick-walled, up to three times septate spores are characteristic.
ecology
The deliquescent gelatinous tear can be found in all forest and forest communities, including parks and gardens. It is particularly common in coniferous forests on spruce wood. The fungus lives as a saprobiont on barked and debarked trunks, branches and twigs, but also on built-in wood. It colonizes the substrate in the initial to the early final phase of the decomposition. It can be found all year round, but is only noticeable in damp weather.
distribution
The flowing gelatinous tear is to be found almost cosmopolitan . In addition to North, Central and South America and Europe, it is also widespread in large parts of Asia, in North, East and South Africa as well as in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. In Europe the fungus is found meridional to boreal ; to the north the area extends to the Shetland Islands and Iceland . He is common and common almost everywhere.
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literature
- 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 .
- Ewald Gerhardt: FSVO manual mushrooms. BLV, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8354-0053-3 .
