Exidiopsis diversa K. Wells
no common name
Auriculariaceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

Introduction to the Macrofungi

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Distribution of Exidiopsis diversa
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Species Information

Summary:
Features include 1) growth on decaying wood of Populus, 2) a waxy to firm gelatinous fruitbody that is colorless to pale grayish or light amber, the surface granulose to pruinose, and the margin tightly attached but not well marked, 3) scattered, subhymenial, white mineral deposits present in some parts, 4) spores that are elliptic to short cylindric curved, 5) basidia that are longitudinally septate, developing on fertile hyphae that proliferate through the subbasidial clamp connection, and 6) sparse dikaryophyses that rarely project beyond the hypobasidial layer.
Microscopic:
SPORES 10-12.5 x (4.5)5.5-6.5 microns, elliptic and laterally depressed to short cylindric curved, guttulate, germination by repetition not observed; PROBASIDIA (13.5)15-22(24) x (9)10-12(13.5) microns distal from clamp connection, enucleate part when present up to 12.5 microns and 3-4 microns wide, "initially narrow obovate to narrow clavate or pyriform, with basal clamp connection, with (2-)4 segments, often with an enucleate stalk, attached at the morphological base or obliquely to almost laterally attached", epibasidia up to 22 microns long, 2-3.5 microns wide, "tubular, somewhat flexuous, usually slightly swollen beneath the sterigma"; fertile hyphae (1.5)2.5-4(7) microns wide, "flexuous, proliferating through or near the subbasidial clamp"; DIKARYOPHYSES "relatively sparse, rarely projecting beyond the hypobasidial layer", 1-2.5 microns wide in apical part, 1.5-5 microns wide in basal part, "simple, nodulose to short-branched distally"; SUBHYMENIAL HYPHAE 2-3 microns wide, mainly distinct, with clamp connections; in section "consisting of a compact to loose ascending layer of interwoven hyphae terminating in the hymenium of fertile hyphae and scattered dikaryophyses, basidia in a zone 25-35 microns wide", "portions of the substrate and other debris often incorporated within the ascending layer"
Notes:
The holotype is from BC.

Habitat and Range

Habitat
on decaying wood of Populus sp. (Wells)