Myxarium nucleatum

Myxarium nucleatum
Myxarium nucleatum, Scotland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Auriculariales
Family: Hyaloriaceae
Genus: Myxarium
Species:
M. nucleatum
Binomial name
Myxarium nucleatum
Wallr. (1833)
Synonyms

Tremella nucleata Schwein. (1822)[1][2]
Naematelia nucleata (Schwein.) Fr. (1822)
Exidia nucleata (Schwein.) Burt (1921)
Tremella gemmata Lév. (1842)[1][3]
Naematelia gemmata (Lév.) Fr. (1874)
Exidia gemmata (Lév.) Bourdot & Maire (1920)
Naematelia atrata Peck (1872)[1]
Myxarium atratum (Peck) Ginns & M.N.L. Lefebvre (1993)
Exidia alboglobosa Lloyd (1925)[3]
Exidia tremelloides L.S. Olive (1951)[2]
Myxarium tremelloides (L.S. Olive) Wojewoda (1981)

Myxarium nucleatum is a species of fungus in the family Hyaloriaceae. In the UK, it has been given the recommended English name of crystal brain.[4] The fruit bodies are watery white, pustular or lobed, and gelatinous with small, white, mineral inclusions visible to the naked eye. It is a common, wood-rotting species in Europe, typically growing on dead attached or fallen branches of broadleaf trees. It is currently not clear whether collections from North America (where it is called granular jelly roll)[5] and elsewhere represent the same species.[6]

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