Tremella rhabdodisci
A lichenicolous jelly fungus described in 2022 in the Flora of Lichenicolous Fungi, growing on the fertile thallus of the lichen Rhabdodiscus inalbescens. All records come from old-growth forest near Yumoto in Nikko National Park, Japan, collected in 2017 and 2019. It cannot be cultivated.
Where it grows wild
Old-growth mixed conifer and broadleaf forest, on the lichen Rhabdodiscus inalbescens growing on the trunks of large conifers, including Tsuga diversifolia, sometimes near a stream.
The measured site is at about 1640 m in the mountains of central Honshu.
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