 Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Myxomycetes >> Order： Trichiales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Arcyria annulifera | |||
| Author： |
Arcyria annulifera Torrend, Broteria 7: 102. 1908. |
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| Description： |
Fructification sporangiate, scattered or gregarious, total height 0.72-1.20 mm when expanded. Sporangia globose, 0.36-0.80 mm in diameter, stipitate. Calyculus quite large, dish like, smooth. Stalk short, 0.2-0.4 mm long, translulcent, longitudinally striate. Capillitium light yellow, forming a net on the calycullus after spores discharged, capillitial threads marked by rings and cogs, 3-4 μm in diameter. Spores dull yellow (cream buff to chamois) in mass, pale by transmitted light, 6.5-7.0 μm in diameter. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taipei City: 14 June 1982, CHLB 105. |
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| Habitat： |
Bark of living trees (Bischofia javanica Blume.) | |||
| Distribution： |
North America, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Martin, GW and Alexopoulos, CJ. 1969; Liu, CH. 1983. |
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| Provided： |
C. H. Liu |
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| Note： |
The sporangia resemble A. insignis in size. But the flesh-colored (carrot red in reflex light) spore mass and the characteristics of the capillitial threads ( the prominences appearing notched, square-ended, or hammer-headed in profile) make it identified as such. A. carnea was noted (Hagelstein, 1944) as a species not clearly marked with sufficient and definite characters, and is placed under doubtful species or synonym of other species (Farr, 1976; Yamamoto, 1997). | |||