Didymium squamulosum (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr., (a slime mould)


28 Sep 2000 at OSGR: SU56 in Berks, England

Record SummarySporocarps on dead monocot leaf
Found asSporocarp
Date28 September 2000
Associated organismLiliidae
OS grid refOSGR: SU56
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher28 Sep 2000[P]
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Notes:

Sporocarps with white stalks and globose grey sporangium which soon becomes white crystalline coated.

White crystalline plates.

Capillitium: sparsely brnached, radiating from stipe apex, sinuous, hyaline to violaceous.

Spores: 8-10µm, spherical, warty.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

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