 Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Dictyosteliomycetes >> Order： Dictyosteliales |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Dictyostelium minutum | |||
| Author： |
Dictyostelium minutum Raper, Mycologia 33: 634. 1941. |
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| Description： |
Sorocarps usually clustered, gregarious or solitary, unbranched or sparsely and irregularly branched, erect, rarely prostrate, not phototropic. Sorophores colorless, sinuous, 0.23-1.00 mm in length, tapering from bases to tips, consisting of a single tire of cells except in basal part, bases clavate, 7.7-17.6 (-24.2) μm in diam at a level 50 μm above the bottom, tips clavate, obtuse or piliform, 2.4-4.6 μm in diam at a level 50 μm below the tip. Sori white, globose, 20-170 μm in diam. Spores hyaline, oblong, usually 1.4-2.0 times longer than broad, mostly 4.1-6.3 × 2.7-4.0 μm, with inconspicuous consolidated polar granules. Pseudoplasmodia mold-like, 0.3-0.6 mm in diam, centralized, migrating with sorophore formation. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taoyuan: Tai 2000-6. |
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| Habitat： |
In forest soils. | |||
| Distribution： |
Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda. America: Canada, Mexico, U. S. A. Asia: India, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan. Europe: Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. |
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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 its small sorocarps, spores with polar granules, and mold-like pseudoplasmodia. | |||