Phylum:Myxomycota >> Class: Myxomycetes >> Order: Trichiales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Hemitrichia clavata | |||
Author: | Trichia clavata Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. I: 90. 1794. Hemitrichia clavata (Pers.) Rost., in Fuckel, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. 27-28: 75. 1873. |
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Description: | Fructification sporangiate, gregarious, total height 1.6-2.0 mm after dehiscent. Sporangia obpyriform, olivaceous yellow, 0.7-1.0 mm at the broadest top. Stalk short, 0.4-0.6 mm long, dark red-brown, attenuating downward and merging above into the base of sporangium, hollow, filled with large rounded spore-like cells. Peridium thin, shining, dehiscent above, below (1/2-1/3) persistent as a deep cup-like calyculus, coarsely papillate within. Capillitium an elastic net with few free ends, yellow ocher, becoming vuckthorn brown, the threads 5-6 μm in diameter, regularly surrounded by 4-5 spiral bands, smooth, often swollen at the junction of the branch and spinulose at this part. Spores apricot yellow in mass, pale yellow by transmitted light, rounded or oval, 7.5-8.0 (-8.2) μm in diameter, faintly warted. | |||
Specimens: | Nantou County: Yü-ch’ih Hsiang, Sun-Moon Lake, 8 Apr 1981, CHL M249a. |
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Habitat: | On rotten wood. | |||
Distribution: | Widely distributed throughout the world. (North and South America, Europe, Asia: China, Japan, Taiwan) |
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References: | Martin GW and Alexopoulos, CJ. 1969; Liu, CH. 1982. |
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Provided: | C. H. Liu |
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Note: | A species very close to Hemitrichia stipitata from which it is distinguishable by the outer appearance: vase-like sporangia, deep calyculus, and the peridium which gradually merging into the short stalk. | |||