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Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface

Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface

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This sub-group holds those gelatinous fungi, amongst the group commonly referred to as jelly fungi, that don’t fit into any of the previous categories.  Those other jelly fungi may be:

 

     Shelf-like

     Stalk-like

     Convoluted to brain-like

 

The fungi in this sub-group have smooth & featureless fruitbodies. If you have found a spotted and somewhat gelatinous fruitbody you probably have one of the soft-fruitbody species of Hypocrea, included in the next sub-group.

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Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface

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Teresa wrote:
21 May 2025
Not a myxo but one of the jellys
Dacrymyces sp.
Teresa wrote:
15 Apr 2025
Looks a little like a dehydrated Tremella sp.
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Heinol wrote:
9 Apr 2025
I oscillate between Tremella and Dacrymyces!
Dacrymyces sp.
Heino1 wrote:
6 Dec 2024
Fresh Heterotextus fruitbodies are pendulous with a narrow attachment point and then broadening downward. From a short distance away one of these resembles a broad, upside-down cone. The lower surface may be more or less flattish or curved a little upward (then resulting in a fruitbody that has a slight resemblance to an upside-down cup. As the fruitbodies dry they may become more cup-like or somewhat irregular in form. If a fungus on wood is yellow to orange and looks like an upside down cup it’s probably a Heterotextus. Though it can be harder to tell when fruitbodies are immature or greatly dried.

There certainly are yellow to orange, wood-inhabiting ascomycetes, which may angle their cup-like surfaces in various directions, though mostly the cups face upward. Some of the orange species of Orbilia might be confused with Heterotextus. However, Orbilia frutibodies are typically gregarious, closely packed and they don’t expand to resemble a broad cone.
Heterotextus sp.
JTran wrote:
6 Dec 2024
Substrate description makes me suspect this is a fire-associated ascomycota rather than Heterotextus. The fruit bodies resemble folded-up discs to me. Very interesting. Other moderators may have more insight into specific species.
Heterotextus sp.

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