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Species Information
Summary: Tremella subanomala is characterized in its genus by 1) the dingy color, 2) the rather small firm tuberculate fruiting bodies, and 3) the depressed spores. (Martin, G.W.(1)). Bandoni(4) note that T. subanomala is closely related to or possibly the same as T. indecorata Sommerf.
T. subanomala has been found in OR, ON, IA, MI, MN, NY, NC, TN, and VT, (Ginns). R. Bandoni collections from BC are deposited at the University of British Columbia.
Fruiting body: up to 4cm in longest dimension, convex, pulvinate [cushion-shaped], tuberculate, fleshy-gelatinous; at first colorless, then dingy cinnamon to raisin color or washed with blackish, drying blackish-cinnamon or fuscous, (Martin)
Microscopic: spores 8-10.5(14) x 10-11(14) microns, subglobose (nearly round), "often depressed and wider than long"; probasidia about 17 microns in diameter, globose (spherical) or subglobose (nearly spherical), yellowish, becoming cruciate-septate, epibasidia up to 80 microns in length, about 2 microns wide, arising abruptly, cylindric, often enlarging at tips, (Martin)
Habitat / Range
on hardwood, Acer saccharinum, Alnus sp., Quercus macrocarpa, (Ginns), dead hardwood, (Martin)
Similar Species
See also SIMILAR section of Pseudotremella moriformis.
