Ditiola peziziformis (Lev.) D.A. Reid
no common name
Dacrymycetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Dacrymycetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Also listed in Jelly category. Ditiola peziziformis has top-shaped to cup-shaped, gelatinous, yellow fruit bodies with a whitish margin and a downy, whitish outer surface, and they usually grow on hardwoods.
Microscopic:
spores 22-25 x 8-9 microns, cylindric to elliptic, some slightly curved, smooth, inamyloid, colorless, with granular contents, when fully mature with 3 to multiple septa, up to 32 microns long, and forming secondary spores; basidia 60-100 x 5-6 microns, tuning-fork-shaped; cystidia not seen, hyphae 2-8 microns wide, sometimes inflated, most septa without clamp connections, (Breitenbach), spores (19)22-27.5(30) x 7.5-11 microns, "broadly curved-cylindrical, narrowing basally, thin-walled with thin indistinct septa, tinted, apiculate", becoming tardily 3-many-septate at maturity, germination by colorless spherical to nearly spherical conidia; probasidia (65)75-110(125) x 5-7.5 microns, cylindric to cylindric-subclavate, with basal clamp connections, becoming bifurcate; hymenium "superior, confined to interior of cup, composed of basidia and occasionally simple cylindrical dikaryophyses"; internal hyphae "thick-walled, smooth or roughened, clamp connections present"; cortex and stem "covered with long cylindrical, thick-walled hairs, simple or sparingly branched, with conspicuous clamp connections at all septa", (McNabb)
Notes:
Distribution includes BC, and also NS, ON, PQ, GA, ME, MI, NH, NY, OH, SC, and VT, (Ginns), Europe (Breitenbach), Japan (Martin), and the British Isles, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Sweden, USSR, and Japan, (McNabb).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
The appearance of Ditiola peziziformis suggests an ascomycete, but the microscopic differences are obvious. Heterotextus alpinus is dull and smooth to pimply or ribbed on undersurface rather than velvety, (McKnight(1)).Habitat
on hardwoods (Alnus, Betula, Fagus, Liriodendron), rarely conifers (Abies, Tsuga), on limbs with bark, wood with bark, branches, (Ginns), breaking through the bark gregariously to clustered, on dead wood of Abies as well as various hardwoods, usually on upper side of fallen branches still with bark, summer to fall, (Breitenbach)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Ganoderma sequoiae Murrill
Polyporus gallicus Fr.
Trametes stuppeus Berk. & M.A. Curtis