Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Physarum famintzini Rost. Monog. 107. 1874
Physarum Gulielmae Penzig, Myxom. Buitenz. 34. 1898.
Sporangia sessile, clustered or heaped, rugulose, brownish-ofange or chestnut, globose or reniform, about 0.4 mm. in diameter; peridium membranous, bearing clustered deposits of yellowish-brown lime granules; capillitium abundant, elastic and expanding, the nodes white, angular, branching, sometimes forming a pseudocolumella; spores purplish-brown, spinulose, 9-12 fi in diameter; Plasmodium yellow or orange. Type locality: Poland.
Habitat; Dead wood and plant debris.
Distribution : Maryland ; Europe ; Java.
- bibliographic citation
- George Willard Martin, Harold William Rickett. 1949. FUNGI; MYXOMYCETES; CERATIOMYXALES, LICEALES, TEICHIALES, STEMONITALES, PHYSARALES. North American flora. vol 1. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
