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Mushroom Observer (MUOB)

Catalog #: MUOB 160758

Taxon: Biatoropsis usnearum Räsänen

Family: Tremellaceae

Observer: zaca

Number: MUOB 160758

Date: 2014-02-22

Verbatim Date: 2014-2-22

Locality: Portugal, Serra de Montejunto,

39.2035 -9.05

Description: Original observation #160758 (Mushroom Observer)

Notes: From the same place that observation 160716. This is one of the few basidiomycete (Tremellales) considered in the category of the so-called "Lichenicolous fungi". It is characterized by having an Usnea sp. as host (U. rubicunda in this case) and consists of pink-orange-brown galls developing on the branches of the host. There is another rarer similar species and not so widespread, Cystobasidium usneicola, which also developes on Usnea spp..

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