 Description： |
Fructification sporantiate, gregarious or scattered, total height up to 5 mm when expanded. Sporangia stipitate, ovoid, subcylindrical to cylindrical, crimson, weathering to redish brown to cinnamon-brown, 1-3 mm long and 0.6-0.8 mm wide when expanded. Stalk long, furrowed, crimson, red-brown to dark-colored, shining, (0.8-) 1.2-2.5 mm long, arising from the continuous red-brown or brown hypothallus, filled with spore-like vesicles of about 10 μm in diameter. Peridium fugacious except for the calyculus. Calyculus, trumpet-like, plicate, membranous, firm and shining, of the same color as the sporangium, smooth, echinulate, or reticulate on the inner surface. Capillitium an intricate net of highly elastic threads, firmly attached to the calyculus, usually erect, crimson, red-brown, tawny to ochraceous tawny, the threads 5-6 μm in diameter, marked with prominent cogs, warts, spines, and half rings, the cogs and spines usually much stouter and larger on one side than the opposite side, free ends rare, hence roundedly pointed or clavate and spinulose on the surface, those close to the calyculus distantly marked, smoother, or nearly smooth of the same size as those above or smaller in diameter. Spores crimson, brick-red, orange–cinnamon, tawny to russet in mass, rounded, marked with few scattered minute warts, 5-8 (-9) μm in diameter. |
| Specimens： |
Taipei County: Wu-lai Hsiang, 12 Dec 1978, CHL M3. Taipei City: NTU campus, 30 Oct 1979, CHL M16; Chih-shan-Yen, 1 Nov 1989, BY248M79. Kaohsiung County: Liu-kuei Hsiang, 1 Jan 1979, CHL M21. NantouCounty: Yü-ch’ih Hsiang, 25 Nov 1979, CHL M42. |
| Note： |
This species is very common on dead, or decaying wood. One of the specimens was collected from a small pot where a Ficus plant grew. The sporangia were scattered or clustered in small number on the minute root almost expose to the surface layer of soil and wood debris, and looked as if they wee growing on the soil surface. The collected specimens show considerable variety in the color of frutification, capillitium and spore mass. They are usually crimson, or brick-red when freshly collected, and then weather to tawny or cinnamon brown. The mostly rather long stalks, highy elastic and firmly attached capillitium (to the calyculus) are quite distinct characters. |
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Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Myxomycetes >> Order： Trichiales