Phylum：Myxomycota　>>　Class： Protosteliomycetes　>>　 Order： Protosteliales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
 
   
   
　Author：

Byssus fruticulosa Müll., Fl. Dan. 4 (fasc. 12): 6. 1777.

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Müll.) Macbr., N. Am. Slime-Moulds 18. 1899.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Fructifications white to yellowish, rarely pinkish, consisting of numerous erect pillars which often dichotomously branched, up to 2 mm in total height. Hypothallus whitish or colorless, membranous. Spores white in mass, colorless by transmitted light, borne externally, one on each slender stipe which arising from the center of the plate on the surface of the pillars, smooth, mostly ovoid to elliptical, 6-7 × 9-11 (-12.5) μm, varying to subglobose or globose, and 8-9 (-10) μm in diameter.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taipei City: NTU campus, Apr 1982, CHL B168; Mucha, Chihnankung (Temple), 25 Oct 1985, B544. Pingtung County: Wanlite Mt., 27 Dec 1995 (moist-chamber: 11/8~12/27/1995), Y.F. Chen 114.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Bark of living trees (Liquidambar formosana Hance, Sapium discolor), dead wood.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Cosmopolitan.
 
 
 
　References：

Martin, GW and Alexopoulos, CJ. 1969; Liu, CH. 1983.
   
   
   
　Provided：

C. H. Liu
 
 
　Note： This is one of the most common and easily recognized species in the field. It usually fruits in abundance on bark of living trees or rotten wood, and appears soft as jello when young.