Trametes gibbosa

The fruiting bodies of the Humpback Tramete are often covered with green algae.

The Humpback Tramete ( Trametes gibbosa ) is a species of fungus in the family Stielporlingsverwandten.

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The Buckeltramete is 5-15 cm, in some cases up to 20 cm wide, cream to grayish-white fruiting bodies, the fan- shaped or Console are the substrate and are often thickened hump -like at the Anwachsstelle. The surface is feinsamtig and zoned, often it is greenish due to algae growth. The non-detachable from Trama tube layer is whitish, the pores are elongated stretched and 0.5-1.0 mm wide. The Buckeltramete can be very diverse occur, especially the eponymous thickening at the Anwachsstelle may not always be clearly marked. The elongated pores distinguish the good kind of similar fungi. The meat is tough and compact, drying it is rock hard. The color of the spore powder is off-white.

Microscopic characteristics

The spores are narrow, 1.5-5 microns in size, ellipsoidal to cylindrical in shape, without germ pore and inamyloid. The Trama consists of trimitischen hyphae, that is, it occur generative hyphae and binding hyphae Skeletthyphen. Buckles formation occurs, there are spindle-shaped, thin-walled cystidia 15-20 microns in length.

Ecology and phenology

The Humpback Tramete occurs mainly in beech forests, next in oak and precious hardwood forests, as well as in moist alluvial soil. Less frequently it is found outside of closed forests. The Humpback Tramete is a saprobiontischer wood inhabitants, which occurs on stumps and lying, thicker hardwood logs and produces a white rot, rarer still standing trunks are populated. They like to grow on beech, but also comes in other hardwoods not unusual infestation of coniferous wood is very rare. Overall, a wide range of hardwoods is populated, while at the beech increasingly preferred to the north until it becomes a single substrate in the south of European distribution area.

The fruiting bodies are found throughout the year.

Dissemination

The Humpback Tramete is in Europe and Asia (up to China, Korea, Japan, south to India) spread in Europe, their distribution area covers the south, north and west by the red beech, only in Eastern Europe, it goes far beyond. Still planted beech stands are populated north to the Hebrides. In Germany the species is distributed throughout and find rare only in dry and pure coniferous forest areas.

Importance

The Humpback Tramete is not edible mushroom, wood pest as it occurs scarcely in evidence.