 Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Myxomycetes >> Order： Trichiales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Hemitrichia karstenii | |||
| Author： |
Hemiarcyria karstenii Rost., Mon. App. 41. 1876. Hemitrichia karstenii (Rost.) A. Lister, Mycet. 178. 1894. |
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| Description： |
Fructification plasmodiocarpous or sporangiate, globose and sessile in the sporangiate form, scattered. Peridium brownish, opaque with deposition of amorphous matter. Capillitium an elastic network of brownish yellow threads, 2-3 μm in diameter, surrounded by 2-3 spiral bands, with many large rounded expansions (up to 17 μm in diameter). Spores yellow in mass, pale (yellowish) by transmitted light, minutely warted, 7.5-8.0 μm in diameter. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taipei City: NTU campus, 14 June 1982, CHL B102c; 11 April 1983, CHL B354. |
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| Habitat： |
Bark of living tree: Bischofia javanica Blume. | |||
| Distribution： |
Europe, America, Celon, China, Japan, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Martin, GW and Alexopoulos, CJ. 1969; Liu, CH. 1983. |
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| Provided： |
C. H. Liu |
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| Note： |
Spores of our specimen are much smaller than as described in the references (Lister, 1925; Martin & Alexopoulos, 1969). Nevertheless the characteristics of the capillitium: a network, loosely and irregularly surrounded by spiral bands, with many rounded swollen bodies, are distinct to be assigned to this species. | |||