 Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Dictyosteliomycetes >> Order： Dictyosteliales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Polysphondylium violaceum | |||
| Author： |
Polysphondylium violaceum Brefeld, Unters. Aus den Gesammtgeb. der Mykol. 6: 1. 1884. |
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| Description： |
Sorocarps usually gregarious or solitary, bearing 2-13 nodes, with 1-6 branches per whorl, phototropic, often prostrate. Sorophores light purple, sinuous, 1.7-8.5 (-18) mm in length, bases clavate to round, 10.5-40.0 μm in diam at the thickest part, tips clavate, compound or simple, 4.0-15.2 μm in diam at a level 50 μm below the top. Branches delicate, 55.8-146.5 μm in length. Sori light to dark purple, globose, terminal sori 475-240 μm in diam, lateral sori 27-136 μm in diam. Spores hyaline, oblong, usually 1.6-2.2 times longer than broad, mostly 4.7-8.8 × 2.8-4.4 μm, with conspicuous consolidated polar granules. Pseudoplasmodia radial, centralized, migrating with sorophore formation. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei: Yangmingshan, alt. 500 m, Hsu 15, 2001. Taoyuan: Takuanshan, alt. 1600 m, Tai 2001-H10. |
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| Habitat： |
In forest soils. | |||
| Distribution： |
Cosmopolitan. |
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| References： |
Yeh, ZY and Chien, CY. 1983; Hagiwara et al. 1992. |
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| Provided： |
Z. Y. Yeh. |
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| Note： |
This species is easily distinguished from the other known Polysphondylia in the violet to purplish sorocarps.. | |||