Dacrymyces
Deliquescent jelly tear ( Dacrymyces stillatus )
The gelatinous tears or tears fungi ( Dacrymyces, syn. Arrhytidia, Dacryomyces and Septocolla ) are a genus of the family of gelatinous tears relatives ( Dacrymycetaceae ) and include species with gelatinous and predominantly pale yellow to bright orange -colored fruiting bodies. They colonize dead wood and produce a white rot in the substrate.
The type species of the genus is the Deliquescent jelly tear ( Dacrymyces stillatus ).
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Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The whelk, disc-or gyro- shaped, often slightly stalked fruiting bodies have a soft to firm gelatinous consistency ( hence the name ). They are colored by carotenoids more or less orange. Gelatinous tears forming fruiting bodies individually or coalesce into larger, bulky structure. The surface is either smooth or wavy.
Microscopic characteristics
The fruiting bodies consist of colorless, tighten loose or bearing hyphae. The Hyphensystem is monomitisch. Hyphidien are either present or absent. The colorless and narrow club-shaped basidia each have two large sterigmata ( Epibasidien ). The spores are colorless, often divided by cross walls and germinate with conidia or germ tubes from. Some species have an imperfect stage.
Ecology
Gelatinous tears are Saprobionten on mostly debarked wood in the early initial to early Final phase of decomposition. With enough moisture, they also colonize wood used. In the substrate causing a white rot. < / gallery>
Species
Worldwide Includes the genus about 30 species. In Europe, 16 species occur or are expected there.
Giant jelly tear ( Dacrymyces chrysospermus )
Smallest jelly tear ( Dacrymyces minor)
Spore Querseptierte the deliquescent jelly tear ( Dacrymyces stillatus )