Guepinia helvelloides (DC.) Fr.
apricot jelly mushroom
Uncertain
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
apricot jelly mushroom
Uncertain
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Also listed in Veined category. Guepinia helvelloides is orange, gelatinous, flabby or rubbery, spatula-shaped to funnel-shaped (usually indented or split at one side), sometimes like a calla lily, growing on the ground or on rotten wood.
Microscopic:
spores 10-12 x 4-5 microns, oblong to elliptic, spore deposit white, (Phillips), spores 9-12(16) x 4-6.5 microns, oblong-elliptic, smooth, (Arora), spores 9.5-11 x 5.5-6 microns, "irregularly elliptic, somewhat flattened on one side, with distinct apiculus, smooth", inamyloid, colorless; hypobasidia 14-20 x 10-11 microns, oval, longitudinally septate, with 2-4 epibasidia; hyphae 1-3 microns wide, septa with clamp connections, gelatinized, (Breitenbach), spores form on undersurface (Lincoff)
Notes:
The distribution includes BC, OR, WA, ID, and also MB, NS, ON, PQ, CA, MI, NY, (Ginns). It is common in the Pacific Northwest and widely distributed in North America, (Phillips). Distribution includes also Europe, Asia, and Africa, (Breitenbach), Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Austria, (Lowy(2)), Guatemala (Lowy(3)), Estonia, Latvia, and Russia, (Raitviir).
Habitat and Range
Habitat
on rotting wood or on the ground under conifers, (Phillips), "solitary to crowded-cespitose, also in rows or clusters, in damp shady places on path and street sides, as well as under shrubbery and in forests, commonly on old wood-processing places, on the soil, but usually in association with buried rotten wood, prefers limy soils", (Breitenbach), in damp ground on rotting wood, often under Douglas fir, (Ammirati), on conifers: needles and rotten wood, very rotten wood, litter, saprophytic on ground, (Ginns), single or more commonly crowded-cespitose in duff, soil and rotten wood under conifers, late summer and fall, rarely spring, (Castellano)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Albatrellus syringae (Parmasto) Pouzar
Corticium subasperisporum Litsch.
Gloeocystidiellum subasperisporum (Litsch.) J. Erikss. & Ryvarden