Trichia varia

Description:

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

Habitat:

Cosmopolitan_distribution ( http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?searc... )

Notes:

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. NOTES: 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: On dead wood. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan ( http://hiddenforest.co.nz/slime/index.ht... )