Phylum：Myxomycota　>>　Class： Dictyosteliomycetes　>>　 Order： Dictyosteliales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Dictyostelium delicatum
 
   
   
　Author：

Dictyostelium delicatum Hagiwara, Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, 14: 359. 1971.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Sorocarps gregarious or solitary, usually sparsely and irregularly branched, sometimes bearing 6 or more crowed branches, erect or prostrate. Sorophores colorless, sinuous, 0.65-7.8 (-12.0) mm in length, gradually tapering from bases to tips, bases clavate to acuminate, 19.4-33.2 μm in diam at a level 50μm above the bottom, tips clavate, compound, 11.2-27.7 μm in diam at a level 50 μm below the top. Sori white, globose, 20-280 μm in diam. Spores hyaline, oblong to elliptical, usually 1.7-2.4 times longer than broad, mostly 5.7-9.3 × 2.5-5.5 μm, with conspicuous consolidated polar granules. Pseudoplasmodia radial, 0.5-6.8 mm in diam, centralized or subdivided, migrating with sorophore formation.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei: Wulai, alt. 600 m, Tai 2000-1, Yangmingshan, alt. 400 m, Tai 2000-2; Tauyuan: Takuanshan, alt. 1600 m, Tai 2000-3; and Hsinchu, alt. 500 m, Tai 2000-4.
 
 
 
　Habitat： In forest soils.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Japan, Nepal and Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Hsu, SL et al. 2001.
   
   
   
　Provided：

Z. Y. Yeh.
 
 
　Note： The delicate sorophores with sparse and irregular branches are characteristics of this species.