page_title: Tremella encephala
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Tremella encephala / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: Eesti: Ajukõhrik murdunud kuusel. 5. november 2013, Lehtmetsa küla, Albu vald.English: Tremella encephala in Albu Parish, Estonia
context_page_description: Tremella encephala is a species of fungus producing pink, brain-like, gelatinous basidiocarps. It is widespread in north temperate regions and is parasitic on another species of fungus, that grows on dead attached and recently fallen branches of conifers.
context_section_description: Tremella encephala was first published in 1801 by Dutch mycologist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, based on an earlier description by Carl Ludwig Willdenow who had described the species from Germany as Tremella encephaliformis. In 1818, it was selected by Elias Magnus Fries as the type species of  Naematelia, a new genus proposed by Fries to accommodate fungi having gelatinous basidiocarps with a hard or compact core. It was not until 1961 that this central core was shown by American mycologist Robert Bandoni to be the remains of the host fungus, Stereum sanguinolentum.
  The epithet encephala means "brain", with reference to the shape and colour of the basidiocarps.
caption: Tremella encephala in Albu Parish, Estonia
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