Phylum：Myxomycota　>>　Class： Dictyosteliomycetes　>>　 Order： Dictyosteliales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Dictyostelium coeruleo-stipes
 
   
   
　Author：

Dictyostelium coeruleo-stipes Raper and Fennell, Amer. J. Bot. 54: 515-528. 1967.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Sorocarps gregarious, clustered or solitary, unbranched, erect or prostrate. Sorophores pale to bluish purple, 0.75-3.0 mm in length, gradually tapering from bases to tips, bases crampon- like or digitate, 12.5-23.5 μm in diam 100 μm from the bottom surface, tips acuminate, simple, 3.5-8.3 μm in diam 50 μm from top surface. Sori white to cream colored, globose, 83-233 μm in diam. Spores hyaline, oblong to elliptical, usually 1.8-2.8 times longer than broad, mostly 6.0-8.8 × 2.5-3.8 μm, with unconsolidated polar granules. Pseudoplasmodia radial, 2-5 mm in diam, centralized, migrating with sorophore formation.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taoyuan : Tai 2001-5
 
 
 
　Habitat： In forest soils.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

U.S.A., Mexico, and Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Fan, YC and Yeh, ZY. 2001.
   
   
   
　Provided：

Z. Y. Yeh.
 
 
　Note： The spore size of the species isolated from Taiwan is larger than that of the type specimen (Raper and Fennell, 1967), but the white to cream sori, the strongly tapered pale to bluish purple sorophores, and the crampon-like bases are characteristic of Dictyostelium coeruleo-stipes.