Sebacina epigaea
Hyménomyc. de France: 39. 1928
Common Name: none
Synonym: Tremella epigaea Berk. & Broome
For description see Martin, Martin, & 'California Mushrooms'.
Growing over soil, rocks, woody debris, and other plant remains in mixed forests; fruiting from fall through winter, widely distributed.
Unknown.
Sebacina epigaea is a resupinate, crustose type of jelly fungus with longitudinally septate basidia. It can be distinguished by fruitbodies that are thin, white to grayish white, waxy-gelatinous, and conform to the shape of the substrate on which they grow. Although once thought to be saprotrophic, the genus has been shown to be mycorrhizal with a wide range of plants.
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