Phylum：Myxomycota　>>　Class： Myxomycetes　>>　 Order： Trichiales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Hemitrichia calyculata
 
   
   
　Author：

Hemiarcyria calyculata Sepg., An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 10: 152. 1880.

Hemitrichia calyculata (Speg.) Farr, Mycologia 66: 887. 1974.

=Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T. Macb., N. Am. Slime-Moulds 207. 1899.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Fructification sporantiate, gregarious, or scattered, total height 1.2-3.0 mm. Sporangia stipitate, obpyriform, turbinate, honey yellow before rupturing, 0.5-1.25 mm in diameter. Stalk dark redish brown, at least 0.5 mm in length (about half or a little more than half of the total height). Peridium thin, yellow, shining, opening above, one-half or less, persistent as calyculus, finely papillate or delicately reticulate within. Hypothallus membranous, restricted to the individual base. Capillitium a dense elastic net with few free ends, Isabella- color after spores discharged, the threads smooth, with 4 or 5 spiral bands, 6-7 (-7.5) μm in diameter. Spores bright yellow (cream- buff to chamois) in mass, pale by transmitted light, globose, subglobose, delicately reticulate under oil lens, appearing spinulose in high dry lens, 7-8 (-8.5) μm in diameter.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Nantou County: Yü-ch’ih Hsiang, 26 Oct 1981, CHL M385; Taipei County: Wu-lai Hsiang, 14 Mar 1982, CHL B41. Tainan City: 4 Aug 1986, CHL B610. Kaohsiung County: Ken-ting National Park, 28 Sept 1986, CHL B656. Pingtung County: Man-chou Hsiang, Wan-li-tê Mt, 3 Aug. 1995, CHL B1790.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On decaying wood.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Cosmopolitan.
 
 
 
　References：

Liu, CH. 1982.
   
   
   
　Provided：

C. H. Liu
 
 
　Note： This species is distinctive by its growth habit, and is readily distinguished from H. clavata by the nearly cylindrical stalk.