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yellow fuzz-cone slime mold

Hemitrichia clavata (Pers.) Rostaf. 1873

Photo by AlexKonig
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Field Notes

Description:

it looked as would the ladybug eat from the slime mold.----------Sporocarps stalked, gregarious or crowded, 1-2 mm total height. Sporothecae broadly clavate or pyriform, olivaceous yellow. Peridium shining, dehiscent above, 50-66% remaining as a goblet-shaped cup, marked within by rather coarse papillae or broken reticulations. Stalk rather short, attenuated downwards and merging gradually above into the base of the sporotheca, hollow, filled with spore-like cells, yellow above, shading into reddish brown below. Hypothallus thin, dark, reddish brown. Capillitium yellow or somewhat olivaceous, ± elastic, the threads 4.5-6.5 µm diam., closely wound with 4-5 spirals, minutely pilose, with occasional free ends, these often swollen, obtuse or tipped with a broad-based apiculus 2-4 µm long. Spores pale yellow, globose or subglobose, coarsely papillate, the papillae frequently elongated into ridges which form a ± complete reticulum visible only under high magnification, 7-9 µm diam. Plasmodium white

Habitat:

----Sporangia stalked or sessile; capillitium a more or less elastic network of branching threads, thickened with from two to six continuous, spiral bands, as in the genus Trichia; bands winding in a sinistral direction-------
HABITAT: Decaying wood.

DISTRIBUTION: Common and abundant, cosm.
( http://hiddenforest.co.nz/slime/family/trichiaceae/trich14.htm )

Notes:

Kingdom Protozoa
--Phylum Myxomycota
---Class Myxomycetes
----Order Trichiales
-----Family Trichiaceae
------Genus Hemitrichia
-------Hemitrichia clavata (Pers) Rost
( http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=122205 ), ( http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Hemitrichia+clavata ), ( http://myxomycet.com.ua/eng/taxa/hemitrichia_clavata.htm ),

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Comments (2)

thanks lars, also really great location, i found another plasmodium, will post it after it has really settled and i could take some good pictures.
excellent, Alex. Great series.

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