|
|
Overview | |
Sporocarps short-stalked or sessile, in small groups, 0.5 mm tall. Sporothecae subglobose or turbinate, 0.3-0.5 mm diam., dull orange-brown. Hypothallus large, membranous, white, discoid. Stalk up to 0.2 mm long, grooved, dark orange. Peridium of two layers, the inner layer membranous, the outer layer thicker, pale orange below, yellow above, the upper part with white calcareous granules, often with yellow crystalline discs inside, the apex forming a convex lid, the inside papillate, the cup rim torn and irregular. Capillitium a net with small meshes and numerous small, angular, often branched, white or yellow nodes which mass together in the centre to form an orange-yellow pseudocolumella, the nodes sometimes contain yellow crystalline discs. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores dark lilac-brown, 9-10 µm diam., verruculose. Plasmodium unknown.
|
|
|
Links to other sites | |
|
|
|
References |
- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E. 1961: Notes on Myxomycetes IV. Myxomycetes collected in the Netherlands, chiefly in the vicinity of Doorwerth (Gelderland). Acta botanica Neerlandica 10: 56-66.
|
|
|
Acknowledgements | |
The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.
Sponsored by grants from the National Science Foundation.
|
|
|
Feedback |
Please send any corrections and comments about this page to John Shadwick
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
email: jshadwi@uark.edu phone: USA-479-575-7393.
|
|
| Supported by | |
Updated: 2024-04-29 05:20:48 gmt
|
