Shaggy glandular
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The Shaggy Drüsling ( Exidia villosa ) is a fungal art of tremellomycetes from the family of the ear flap mushroom relatives (Auriculariaceae). Its light, grayish-yellow fruit bodies grow in groups and melt together to form a thick carpet. They appear on dead, fallen deciduous tree branches , where they cause white rot . The distribution area of the species is currently limited to Europe, it is considered very rare.
features
Macroscopic features
The shaggy Drüsling forms gelatinous, pillow-shaped or cushion-shaped fruiting bodies. As with many other glands , they grow in dense groups and quickly merge to form a closed, up to 15 cm long coating. Their edge is tough, gelatinous and has long eyelashes. The hymenium on the upper side of the basidiocarpia is light gray, pale ocher or yellow-white. Young specimens have numerous glandular warts, whereas old mushrooms are only sparsely present.
Microscopic features
The hyphae structure of the shaggy glandular gland is monomitic as in all glandular glands , so it consists only of generative hyphae. They are cylindrical, hyaline, and inamyloid .
distribution
The Shaggy Drüsling has so far only been found in Europe. There the sites are limited to Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) and Northern Europe (Sweden). The species is considered to be very rare in its entire range.
ecology
Like other Drüsling, the Shaggy Drüsling is a saprobiont . It only colonizes dead wood from deciduous trees , where it breaks down the lignin and thus causes white rot . It usually uses fallen branches lying on the ground as a substrate.
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 .