Exidiopsis paniculata K. Wells & Bandoni
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 paniculata
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Species Information

Summary:
Features include 1) growth on decaying wood (of black locust), 2) a waxy gelatinous fruitbody that is light grayish white, bruising dark buff, the surface pruinose to granulose, and the margin tightly attached but not easily apparent, 3) allantoid spores, 4) basidia that are longitudinally septate, developing on fertile hyphae that proliferate through the subbasidial clamp connection, and 5) a hymenium that consists of a zone of basidia below a rather distinct layer of dikaryophyses.
Microscopic:
SPORES (13.5)14.5-20(22) x (5.5)6-8(9) microns, cylindric curved to allantoid, guttulate, capable of germinating by repetition; "hymenium consisting of a zone of basidia below a rather distinct layer of dikaryophyses"; PROBASIDIA formed in a zone 30-55 microns wide, (15)16-25(26.5) x 12.5-17(22) microns, "ovate, obovate to clavate, less often ovate or pyriform, at times irregular, with basal clamp, with (2-)4 segments, guttulate", epibasidia up to 50 microns long, 3-5.5(7) microns wide, tubular to flexuous [wavy] or almost nodulose; fertile hyphae 2-5 microns wide, "nodulose to flexuous, forming clusters of basidia by proliferating through or near subbasidial clamp connections", dikaryophyses rather abundant, forming a well-defined layer 18-45 microns tall above the hypobasidia, 1-2 microns wide near apices, 1.5-4 microns wide in basal part, distinct, "usually distinctly short-branched distally, less often with short, nodulose lateral branches, often irregular in diam to nodulose", "apparently originating from the fertile hyphae, with a basal clamp"; SUBHYMENIAL HYPHAE relatively distinct, 2-5 microns wide, colorless, with clamp connections, "becoming slightly thick-walled and devoid of contents adjacent to the substrate"; fruitbody in section "consisting of a basal layer of closely interwoven hyphae becoming ascending in the subhymenial zone, in places erupting through the substrate then ascending to the hymenium, or with basal hyphae parallel to the substrate and ascending to the hymenium, portions of the substrate and other debris, including hyphae and spores of other fungi, often included in the subhymenial zones", (Wells)
Notes:
The holotype is from BC.

Habitat and Range

SIMILAR SPECIES
An unnamed species of Exidiopsis which has been known incorrectly as Exidiopsis calcea (Pers.) Wells or Sebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres. has been recorded from BC, WA, ID, AB, MB, NS, NT, ON, PE, SK, YT, AK, AZ, CA, FL, GA, IA, IL, LA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, NH, NY, and VT, (Ginns).
Habitat
on fallen, dead, barked branch of Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust), (Wells)

Synonyms

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Corticium pilosum Burt
Peniophora amoena Burt