Tremella encephala Willd.
(Conifer Brain)

Interactions where Tremella encephala is the controlling partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
basidiocarp		basidiocarp parasitises live fruitbody			Stereum sanguinolentum	Bleeding Conifer Crust, Red Rot (Of Conifers) - causative organism	Russulales: Stereaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Tremellomycetes/Tremellales/Tremellaceae/Tremella encephala/	Tremella encephala	conifer brain				basidiocarp	Fungus / parasite			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Stereaceae/Stereum sanguinolentum/	Stereum sanguinolentum	bleeding conifer crust, red rot (of conifers) - causative organism		live		fruitbody
basidiocarp		basidiocarp is associated with dead wood			PINOPSIDA	conifers		Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Tremellomycetes/Tremellales/Tremellaceae/Tremella encephala/	Tremella encephala	conifer brain				basidiocarp	Plant / associate			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Pinopsida/	Pinopsida	conifers		dead	wood

Tremella encephala (Conifer Brain) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Tremella encephala (Conifer Brain) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Author & Year	Title	Source
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Tremella encephala (Conifer Brain)
Genus	Tremella (a genus of fungal-parasite brain fungi)
Family	TREMELLACEAE (a family of jelly fungi)
Order	TREMELLALES (an order of jelly fungi)
Class	TREMELLOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Tremella encephala is also a member of:
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Tremella encephala (Conifer Brain)

Tremella encephala (Conifer Brain) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Tremella
(a genus of fungal-parasite brain fungi)

TREMELLOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

General Literature

Ballistosporic basidia

Observations on spores and their germination in certain Heterobasidiomycetes

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Tremella encephala (Conifer Brain):

Tremella
(a genus of fungal-parasite brain fungi)

TREMELLOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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