Fructification sporangiate, gregarious, total height 1.6-2.0 mm after dehiscent. Sporangia obpyriform, olivaceous yellow, 0.7-1.0 mm at the broadest top. Stalk short, 0.4-0.6 mm long, dark red-brown, attenuating downward and merging above into the base of sporangium, hollow, filled with large rounded spore-like cells. Peridium thin, shining, dehiscent above, below (1/2-1/3) persistent as a deep cup-like calyculus, coarsely papillate within. Capillitium an elastic net with few free ends, yellow ocher, becoming vuckthorn brown, the threads 5-6 μm in diameter, regularly surrounded by 4-5 spiral bands, smooth, often swollen at the junction of the branch and spinulose at this part. Spores apricot yellow in mass, pale yellow by transmitted light, rounded or oval, 7.5-8.0 (-8.2) μm in diameter, faintly warted.
Widely distributed throughout the world. (North and South America, Europe, Asia: China, Japan, Taiwan)
References：
Martin GW and Alexopoulos, CJ. 1969; Liu, CH. 1982.
Provided：
C. H. Liu
Note：
A species very close to Hemitrichia stipitata from which it is distinguishable by the outer appearance: vase-like sporangia, deep calyculus, and the peridium which gradually merging into the short stalk.
Phylum：Myxomycota >> Class： Myxomycetes >> Order： Trichiales 
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