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Trichia varia ripe
Trichia varia
50.8843, 5.98617
Field Notes
Description:
------SPORANGIA: Globose, obovoid, or turbinate, 0.6 to 0.9 mm. diam., sessile, short-stalked, or forming short plasmodiocarps, crowded or scattered, ochraceous yellow or olivaceous, often forming large colonies.
----PERIDIUM: Membranous, pale yellow, marked with ring-shaped or crescentic thickenings.
----STALK: 0.1 to 0.5 mm. high, thick, black, furrowed.
---CAPILLITIUM: Of cylindrical ochraceous yellow elaters 3-5 ju diam., tapering shortly at the ends and terminating in curved points, marked with two well-defined spiral bands which are more prominent on one side of the elater than on the other.
----This species is clearly distinguished from every other one of the genus by the two spiral bands on the elaters, which are prominent, and more so on one side.
---SPORES: Ochrace ous yellow, minutely warted,
11 - 16 µm diam.
---PLASMODIUM: White
Habitat:
---HABITAT: On dead wood.
---DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan
Notes:
Sporocarps gregarious or crowded, sessile or with a short, stout, black stalk, rarely subplasmodiocarpous. Sporotheca shining yellow, globose, obovoid or somewhat elongate, 0.5-0.9 mm wide. Peridium membranous. Hypothallus broadly expanded, inconspicuous. Capillitium of simple or rarely branched elaters, 3-5 µm diam., bearing 2(-3) irregular spiral bands, these prominent and in places remote, the apices often swollen behind the conical tip. Spore-mass yellow to orange-yellow. Spores dull pale yellow, verruculose, 12-14 µm diam. Plasmodium white
( http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Trichia+varia&mobile=close), ( http://slimemold.uark.edu/fungi/default.aspx?NavControl=search&selected… )
---- take a real good look at the first picture, relativly at the center, but a bit to the right side, is a sporangia, which has little bubble/balls on it, now have i seen at some docus, that some myxomycetes ooze water, which is too much. but that looks weird/intresting !
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