Phaeotremella foliacea

On dead decaying wood or bark on the ground of broadleaf trees, until recently known as Tremella foliacea, with fruit bodies having wavy-edged lobes, growing from a common base (fasciculate), without a distinct stipe, 3 to 10 cm across, dark reddish-brown, and of gelatinous consistency.

Monomitic hyphal system, with hyaline generative hyphae, thin- to moderately thick-walled, 2 to 6 µm wide, widely separated by gelatinization, septate and with clamped septa.

Hypobasidia subspherical to ovoid, longitudinally septate, 12 to 18 µm long, 10 to 13 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and two or four long, thick sterigmata.

Spores ellipsoid to amygdaliform, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a prominent, slightly eccentric apiculus at one end, 7 to 9 µm long, 5 to 7 µm wide, with granular contents inside, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.