Key to Fungi Occurring as Irregularly Shaped
Gelatinous Masses: the Jelly Fungi

1. Fruit body blackish or whitish

    2. Fruit body blackish .........................................................................................................Exidia glandulosa

    2. Fruit body whitish .......................................................................................................Ductifera pululahuana

1. Fruit body yellowish to yellow-orange or purplish or brownish

    3. Fruit body yellowish to yellow-orange

        4. Fruit body whitish near point of attachment; grows on conifer logs..............................Dacrymyces palmatus

        4. Fruit body without whitish point of attachment; on hardwood logs .............................Tremella mesenterica

    3. Fruit body purplish or brownish; on hardwoods

        5. Fruit body purplish; individual fruit bodies cup-like or disc-like up to 1 cm wide but soon
            coalesce to form an irregular gelatinous mass .........................................................Ascocoryne sarcoides

        5. Fruit body brownish (yellowish to reddish to grayish brown)

            6. Fruit body irregularly cup-shaped or ear-shaped with portions irregularly wrinkled or with raised
                vein-like markings, finely tomentose.........................................................................Auricularia auricula

            6. Fruit body not as above, occurring as irregularly-shaped, contorted clusters;
                not tomentose ........................................................................................................Exidia recisa