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Dacrymyces stillatus Nees, 1817 (Common Jellyspot)

Notes (MWS) An exceedingly common jelly fungus which forms soft yellow, red or orange spots on damp (mainly) coniferous wood, including worked wood where it causes great damage.

Suggested Literature

Dacrymyces stillatus may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
DACRYMYCETALES
(an order of jelly fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Dacrymyces stillatus is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Trees - Broadleaved And Coniferous Trees fruitbody is saprobic on decayed wood (worked) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Trees - Broadleaved And Coniferous Trees fruitbody is saprobic on decayed wood UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Dacrymyces stillatus:

basidiome (dead, decayed) dead, decayed basidiome is decayed by basidiome Tulasnella anguifera - a basidiomycete fungus (Tulasnellales: Tulasnellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
basidiome (live) live basidiome is parasitised by internal basidiome Tremella giraffa - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) UK/Ireland Roberts, P., 2007
basidiome (live) live basidiome is parasitised by internal basidiome Tremella obscura - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) Foreign Questionable Roberts, P., 2007
basidiome (live) live basidiome is parasitised by internal basidiome Tremella penetrans - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Roberts, P., 2007
basidiome (live) live basidiome is parasitised by internal basidiome Tulasnella pinicola - a basidiomycete fungus (Tulasnellales: Tulasnellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody fruitbody is associate of Itersonilia perplexans - an anamorphic basidiomycete (Filobasidiales: Filobasidiaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
hymenium, basidiome (live) live hymenium of basidiome is parasitised by internal basidiome Tulasnella thelephorea - a basidiomycete fungus (Tulasnellales: Tulasnellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Dacrymyces stillatus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
Dacrymyces
(jelly spots)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Roberts, P., 2007 British Tremella species IV: Tremella obscura, T. penetrans, T. giraffa & T. polyporina

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