Naohidea sebacea (Berk. & Broome) Oberw.
no common name
Uncertain

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

Introduction to the Macrofungi

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Distribution of Naohidea sebacea
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Species Information

Summary:
Naohidea sebacea is characterized by extremely long, narrow basidia. Features include 1) resupinate growth on pyrenomycetes, 2) small whitish patches starting as soft-gelatinous to mucous fruitbodies that are cushion-shaped, spherical, or oblong, anastomosing to form elongated areas up to 0.9cm long, 3) obovate to oblong spores, 4) 4-cellular basidia, with a very long thin-walled basidial stem cut off from the lower part of the spore-producing part, and 5) hyphae with numerous clamp connections.
Microscopic:
SPORES 8-16 x 5-8 microns, "obovate or oblong, sometimes subfusiform, attenuate at the base and often laterally depressed", germinating by repetition; BASIDIA 120-300 x 4-6 microns, "flexuous, finally almost circinate, 3-septate", "epibasidia thick, becoming filiform", HYPHAE 1-3 microns wide, with numerous clamp connections, (Bandoni(10), adapted from Bourdot & Galzin, 1928), SPORES 9-12.3 x 5.5-8 microns, oboval, often flattened on one side, smooth, colorless, apiculate, germination by repetition or by colorless, nearly round to round conidia, 2.5-6.5 x 2.5-5.5 microns (similar conidia occasionally produced by the basidia); BASIDIA terminal, composed of a long stem cell "and a straight or flexuous, 4-celled metabasidium", overall length from clamp connection at base of stem cell 90-275 microns, 5-7.5 microns wide, sterigmata variable in shape and length, up to 25 microns long, a "distinctive feature of P. sebacea is the presence of a thin-walled basidial stipe which is cut off from the lower portion of the probasidium"; INTERNAL HYPHAE thin-walled, with clamp connections, (McNabb, Latin name italicized), SPORES mostly obovate, apiculate, 9.1-12 x 5.9-8.1 microns (Bresadola 10-13 x 7-9 microns); BASIDIA "borne at the tips of long branched hyphae with clamp connections, composed of a long stalk and a four-celled spore-producing part", measuring in all 97-268 x 5.1-7.2 microns, (Olive), in BC collection, spores were 8-10 x 5-7 microns; basidia were up to 190 microns long and were (3.5)4-4.5 microns long, (Bandoni(9))
Notes:
Naohidea sebacea has been found in BC, CA, and GA, (Ginns), Poland (Bandoni(10)), and France, (McNabb).

Habitat and Range

Habitat
on stroma of pyrenomycetes, on decaying wood, (Raitviir), mycoparasitic on sphaeriaceous fungi on dead wood, growing from the perithecial stromata; on or in fructifications of other fungi; on Botryodiplodia sp., Botryosphaeria sp., B. quercuum, Phialophorophoma-like fungus, (Ginns)