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Pin Mold
Spinellus sp.
-37.8892, 145.29
Field Notes
Description:
Soft white mass of hyphae with small shiny black balls (sporangium) on thin white stalks (sporangiophores). Seen growing on the gills of a decaying Redlead Roundhead mushroom (Leratiomyces ceres).
Habitat:
Host mushroom growing in garden mulch
Notes:
icThese fungi belong to phylum Zygomycota. They form spherical sporangia during sexual reproduction. they are mostly terrestrial living on decaying plant or animal matter.
This genus is parasitic on a variety of gilled mushrooms.
Order: Mucorales
Family: Phycomycetaceae
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Spinellus
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PublishedJune 23, 2014
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