Phylum:Myxomycota >> Class: Myxomycetes >> Order: Trichiales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Trichia favoginea | |||
Author: | Lycoperdon favogineum Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 1: 257. 1786. Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 90. 1974. |
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Description: | Fructification sporangiate, crowded, gregarious, occasionally solitary, on extensive hypothallus. Sporangia sessile, globose, pulvinate, to clavate, or cylindrical, 0.6-0.8 mm in diameter, apricot yellow to yellow-brown, or olivaceous. Peridium iridescent, translucent and membranous, opening from the top, usually in floriform. Hypothallus membranous, brownish. Capillitium yellow, apricot yellow, to brownish yellow, consisting of long elaters, 5-7 μm in diameter, bearing 4-5 spiral bands, marked with short spines, the spiral bands closely surrounding the elater, tips acutely ended. Spores apricot yellow in mass, globose, subglobose, large, 12-15 μm in diameter (border included), marked with conspicuous bands dividing the surface of one hemisphere into 4-5 meshes, the bands pitted, poorly or incompletely developed bands also present in some meshes. | |||
Specimens: | Nantou County: Yuchih Hsiang, 25 Nov 1979, CHL M34, CHL M37; 5 Sept 1980 CHL M111. Taipei City: Shihlin, Shamao Mt., 11 Oct 1997, CHL B1317. Pingtung County: Manjhou Hsiang, Nanjenshan forest, 22 Nov 1997, CHL B1336. |
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Habitat: | On decaying hard wood. | |||
Distribution: | Cosmopolitan. |
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References: | Martin, GW and Alexopoulos, CJ. 1969; Liu, CH. 1980. |
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Provided: | C. H. Liu |
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Note: | A species very distinct by its crowded, bright yellow-colored, sessile sporangia, and spores which are rather large with distinctive surface markings. | |||