Tremellodendropsis tuberosa

An uncommon, small-sized species with basidiomes having few branches arising from a common base, 1 to 3 cm wide, with an irregular, slightly rugose whitish to cream surface, tough and pliable flesh, and without distinct taste (insipid).

Monomitic hyphal system with smooth, hyaline, thin-walled subhymenial hyphae, arranged more or less parallel to each other, 2.5 to 4 µm wide, septate with simple septa (without clamp connections).

Without cystidia.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 40 to 60 µm long, 9 to 14 µm wide, with simple base, 4-spored, with sterigmata up to 10 µm long.

Spores cylindric-ellipsoid to distinctly fusiform, smooth, hyaline, thin- to slightly thick-walled, with a more pointed and curved end bearing the apiculus, 14 to 19 µm long, 5 to 7 µm wide, with granular oil contents inside, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2721/26.