Tremellodendropsis (Corner) Stat. Nov. Emend.

Fruit body clavarioid, branched, rarely subsimple, branches terete to flattened, polychotomous to dichotomous, rugose to smooth, subcoriaceous to tough and fleshy, possessing a high percentage of water yet not really gelatinous, colour when fresh varying from white to dull pallid to flesh colour or deep buff; drying horny or cartilaginous, twisted, fuscous to grey colour; macroscopically very similar to Aphelaria.

Terrestrial, on hard clay to rich humus: 4 spp., north and south temperate and tropical: type T. tuberosa.

Spores white, smooth walled, subglobose, oblong, ovoid amygdaliform, aguttate or minutely multi-guttulate.

Basidia clavate, large, apex cruciately subseptate or septate: sterigmata 1–2–4, elongated.

Hymenium generally thickening, absent from stem and parts of upper sides of some branches or rudimentary. Cystidia absent.

Hyphae monomitic, clamped, occasionally secondarily septate, not inflated, cells elongated, walls thickening.