 Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Dictyosteliomycetes >> Order： Dictyosteliales |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Dictyostelium brefeldianum | |||
| Author： |
Dictyostelium brefeldianum Hagiwara, Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, Ser. B, 10: 39. 1984. |
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| Description： |
Sorocarps solitary, usually unbranched, sometimes sparsely and irregularly branched, phototropic, sometimes prostrate. Sorophores colorless, sinuous, 0.5-7.0 (-10.5) mm in length, tapering from bases to tips, mostly one cell wide, consisting of a tier of cells in terminal part except for the tips, bases conical or round, 6.5-24.7 μm in diam at a level 50μm above the bottom, tips capitate compound, 3.3-10.5 μm in diam at a level 50 μm below the tip. Sori white, globose, 80-320 μm in diam. Spores hyaline, oblong, usually 1.4-2.0 times longer than broad, mostly 5.5-8.3 × 2.8-4.4 μm, without polar granules. Pseudoplasmodia, 1.0-2.5 mm in diam, centralized, migrating with sorophore formation. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei: Yangmingshan, alt. 500 m, Tai 2001-2; Taoyuan: Takuanshan, Tai 2000-D09. |
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| Habitat： |
In deciduous forest soils. | |||
| Distribution： |
Cosmopolitan. |
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| References： |
Yeh, ZY and Chien CY. 1983; Hagiwara et al. 1992. |
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| Provided： |
Z. Y. Yeh. |
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| Note： |
According to Hagiwara (1989), D. brefeldianum is characterized by the capitate tips of sorophores. Its slender sorophore terminates suddenly in a mass of cells as if an arm is followed with a fist. | |||