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

Dictyostelium rhizopodium Raper and Fennell, Amer. J. Bot. 54: 517 1967.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Sorocarps gregarious, clustered or solitary, unbranched but sometimes sparsely and irregularly branched, erect or sometimes prostrate. Sorophores light purple to yellowish purple, 1.5-5.5 mm in length, gradually tapering from bases to tips, bases crampon- like or digitate, 12.1-22.5 μm in diam at a level 100μm above the bottom, tips usually capitate, 2.-4.4 μm in diam at a level 50 μm below the tip. Sori shading from yellow to brownish olive, globose, 60-300 μm in diam. Spores hyaline, oblong to elliptical, usually 1.7-2.1 times longer than broad, mostly 5.5-7.2 × 2.2-3.3 μm, with consolidated polar granules. Pseudoplasmodia radial, 2-3.5 mm in diam, centralized, migrating with sorophore formation.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taoyuan: Tai 2001-C1, Tai 2001-C2, Tai 2001-C3.
 
 
 
　Habitat： In forest soils.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

U.S.A., Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Hagiwara et al., 1992; Fan, YC and Yeh, ZY. 2002.
   
   
   
　Provided：

Z. Y. Yeh.
 
 
　Note： This species is characterized by the light purple to yellowish purple sorophores and yellow to brownish olive sori and by the crampon-like bases of the sorophores.