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trichia decipiens
trichia decipiens
50.8882, 5.9795
Field Notes
Description:
Plasmodium white, pink or orange. Stalk gradually merging into the sporotheca, plicate, brown, filled with spore-like bodies. Sporotheca obovate or pyriform, ochraceous, very shiny. Peridium yellow or ochraceous-yellow by TL, smooth, pleated towards the stalk, dehiscing at the apex and remaining as a basal cup. Elaters usually unbranched, ochraceous-yellow by TL, 4.5-5.5 µm diam. in the middle, gradually attenuate into the very long points (75-150 µm), with 4-5 smooth, rather thick spirals, without longitudinal striae. Spore-mass, including the capillitium, ochraceous or ochraceous-brown. Spores pale yellow, 10-13 µm diam., decorated with short irregular ridges and a broken small-meshed reticulum of bands up to 1 µm high, showing as a border in optical section ( http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Trichia+decipiens )
Habitat:
HABITAT: On dead wood.
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan
( http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/slime/index.htm )
Notes:
Taxonomic position:
Kingdom: Myxobiontes
Subkingdom: Myxomycetobionti
Phylum: Physarophyles
Class: Physariodes
Order: Trichiales
Family: Trichiaceae
Species: Trichia decipiens
( http://sanamyan.com/myxomycetes/trichia_decipiens.php ), ( http://slimemold.uark.edu/fungi/WebForms/ImageSearchForm.aspx?letter=T )
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