Phylum：Myxomycota　>>　Class： Myxomycetes　>>　 Order： Trichiales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Trichia favoginea
 
   
   
　Author：

Lycoperdon favogineum Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 1: 257. 1786.

Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 90. 1974.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Fructification sporangiate, crowded, gregarious, occasionally solitary, on extensive hypothallus. Sporangia sessile, globose, pulvinate, to clavate, or cylindrical, 0.6-0.8 mm in diameter, apricot yellow to yellow-brown, or olivaceous. Peridium iridescent, translucent and membranous, opening from the top, usually in floriform. Hypothallus membranous, brownish. Capillitium yellow, apricot yellow, to brownish yellow, consisting of long elaters, 5-7 μm in diameter, bearing 4-5 spiral bands, marked with short spines, the spiral bands closely surrounding the elater, tips acutely ended. Spores apricot yellow in mass, globose, subglobose, large, 12-15 μm in diameter (border included), marked with conspicuous bands dividing the surface of one hemisphere into 4-5 meshes, the bands pitted, poorly or incompletely developed bands also present in some meshes.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Nantou County: Yuchih Hsiang, 25 Nov 1979, CHL M34, CHL M37; 5 Sept 1980 CHL M111. Taipei City: Shihlin, Shamao Mt., 11 Oct 1997, CHL B1317. Pingtung County: Manjhou Hsiang, Nanjenshan forest, 22 Nov 1997, CHL B1336.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On decaying hard wood.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Cosmopolitan.
 
 
 
　References：

Martin, GW and Alexopoulos, CJ. 1969; Liu, CH. 1980.
   
   
   
　Provided：

C. H. Liu
 
 
　Note： A species very distinct by its crowded, bright yellow-colored, sessile sporangia, and spores which are rather large with distinctive surface markings.