 Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Dictyosteliomycetes >> Order： Dictyosteliales |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Dictyostelium clavatum | |||
| Author： |
Dictyostelium clavatum Hagiwara, Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, Ser. B, 18: 1-6. 1992. |
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| Description： |
Sorocarps usually solitary, sometimes gregarious, mostly unbranched, sometimes sparsely branched, erect, rarely prostrate, phototropic. Sorophores colorless, sinuous, 0.8-2.0 (-3.2 mm) mm in length, tapering from clavate bases to clavate tips, bases clavate, 20.8-38.8μm in diam at a level 50μm above the bottom, tips clavate, 8.3-22.2 μm in diam at a level 50 μm below the tip. Sori white, globose, 83-200 (-233) μm in diam. Spores hyaline, oblong, usually 1.7-2.0 times longer than broad, mostly 5.5-6.6 × 2.8-3.3 μm, without polar granules. Pseudoplasmodia, 1.0-3.5 mm in diam, centralized, migrating with sorophore formation. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taoyuan: Takuanshan, alt. 1600 m, Tai 2000-7. |
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| Habitat： |
In forest soils. | |||
| Distribution： |
Nepal and Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Fan, YC and Yeh, ZY. 2002. |
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| Provided： |
Z. Y. Yeh. |
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| Note： |
This species is characterized by the medial sorophores which are not exceeding 4 mm, the clavate sorophore tips and the small spores. Taiwanese isolates have somewhat larger spore size than the type specimen reported by Hagiwara (1992). | |||