Tremellodendron
| Tremellodendron | |
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| Tremellodendron pallidum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Sebacinales |
| Family: | Sebacinaceae |
| Genus: |
Tremellodendron G.F.Atk. (1902) |
| Type species | |
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Tremellodendron candidum (Schwein.) G.F.Atk. |
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| Species | |
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Tremellodendron aurantium |
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| Synonyms | |
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Collodendrum Clem. (1909) |
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Tremellodendron aurantium
Tremellodendron cladonia
Tremellodendron merismatoides
Tremellodendron ocreatum
Tremellodendron pallidum
Tremellodendron simplex
Tremellodendron tenax
Tremellodendron tenue
Collodendrum Clem. (1909)
Tremellodendron is a genus of fungi in the family Sebacinaceae. Its species are mycorrhizal, forming a range of associations with trees and other plants. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are produced on soil and litter. The fruit bodies are clavarioid (club or coral-shaped) and leathery to rubbery-gelatinous. The genus is restricted to the Americas.
The genus was first published in 1902 by American mycologist George Francis Atkinson who had discovered that two species of branched, coral-like fungi previously referred to Thelephora (Tremellodendron candidum and T. schweinitzii) possessed septate basidia, similar to those found in the genus Tremella. He therefore established Tremellodendron to accommodate branched, Thelephora-like fungi with "tremelloid" basidia. A few additional species were described by subsequent authors. Edward Angus Burt, who monographed the genus in 1915, placed Tremellodendron within the Tremellaceae. It remained in this family until 1992, when it was transferred to the newly established Sebacinaceae.
Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has supported the placement of Tremellodendron within the Sebacinaceae. It has, however, also shown that the genus is polyphyletic and may not be distinct from the genus Sebacina.
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