Macbride, T.H. 1926: A bit of Polynesian mycology. Mycologia 18(3): 125-131.
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Fructification closely gregarious; sporangia dark grey, ovate or cylindric, sessile, or narrowed below, but not strictly stipitate ; about 1 mm high, with apical dehiscence; the capillitium dense, the tubules very short, the nodes large, irregular, white, physaroid, more or less aggregate at the center, otherwise no columella; spores dark violaceous, coarsely spinulose, thick-walled save for a limited area apparently thinner, but bearing a few scattered spinules, 12-14 µm.
Resemblance is with B. papaveracea (Berk.) Rost.; the spores are adherent in fours, apparently; but there are no stems and the sporangia are cylindric or irregularly prolate.
This species is represented by a very peculiar phase. The adherent spores are in all respects normal, but the fructification as a whole is erionemoid! The sporangia are small, distributed as bead-like enlargements of the flaccid and thread-like, far extended stipe. When blown out, as the material before us is, the resemblance is to Erionema. This may be an unusual presentation; if not, it deserves recognition as varietal at least; B. capsulifera Berk. form-monilifera.
Fructification consisting of stipitate sporocarps, scattered, inclined to be closely gregarious; the capitula ovoid or spherical, becoming prolate; at first dark brown, paler at top, girt with white below, at maturity wholly white with falling spores, small, about 1/4 x 1/16 mm.; stipe clear brown, rigid, erect, even, 1.5-2 mm.; spores catenulate, smooth, 4-5 µm. N. Zealand.
Cited scientific names
- Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst. 1885
- Arcyria incarnata (Pers. ex J.F. Gmel.) Pers. 1796
- Arcyria incarnata var. fulgens Lister 1911
- Badhamia calvescens T. Macbr. 1926
- Badhamia capsulifera (Bull.) Berk. 1853
- Badhamia capsulifera var. monilifera T. Macbr. 1926
- Badhamia utricularis (Bull.) Berk. 1853
- Comatricha nigra (Pers. ex J.F. Gmel.) J. Schröt. 1885 [1889]
- Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. 1894
- Coremium gracile T. Macbr. 1926
- Craterium minutum (Leers) Fr. 1829
- Diderma hemisphaericum (Bull.) Hornem. 1829
- Didymium squamulosum (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr. 1818
- Didymium xanthopus (Ditmar) Fr. 1829
- Enteridium liceoides (Lister) G. Lister 1919
- Hemitrichia serpula (Scop.) Rostaf. ex Lister 1894
- Lamproderma violaceum var. sauteri (Rostaf.) Lister 1894
- Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
- Physarum globuliferum (Bull.) Pers. 1801
- Physarum leucophaeum Fr. 1818
- Physarum straminipes Lister 1898
- Physarum viride (Bull.) Pers. 1795
- Pilacre divisa Berk. 1855
- Stemonitis axifera (Bull.) T. Macbr. 1899
- Stemonitis flavogenita E. Jahn 1904
- Trichia decipiens (Pers.) T. Macbr. 1899
- Trichia lateritia Lév. 1846
- Trichia varia (Pers. ex J.F. Gmel.) Pers. 1794
- Trichia verrucosa Berk. 1859 [1860]
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6 June 2003
