Exidia saccharina Fr., 1822

Common names

🇬🇧 Pine Jelly

Taxonomy

Division: Basidiomycota
Subdivision: Agaricomycotina
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: Auriculariomycetidae
Order: Auriculariales
Family: Auriculariaceae
Genus: Exidia
Species: Exidia saccharina

Presence

Present.

Notes

Possible confusion with E. subsaccharina F.Wu, B.Rivoire, Tohtirjap & Y.C.Dai, 2023, which has recently been discovered in France and England, and from which it is not distinguishable in the field (Tohtirjap et al., 2023).

Found on the branches of a dead Pinus sylvestris L., 1753.

Photographs

img/exidia-saccharina.webp — *Exidia saccharina*

Sources

Tohtirjap, A., Hou, S.X., Rivoire, B., Gates, G., Wu, F., & Dai, Y.C. (2023) Two new species of Exidia sensu lato (Auriculariales, Basidiomycota) based on morphology and DNA sequences. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1080290