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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780

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F.H. Wigg.
Hill ex F.H. Wigg.
Wiggers, F.H. In: Primitiae Florae Holsaticae. 112 p..
1780
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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
genus
Arcyria

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Protozoa
Eumycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Trichiales
Trichiaceae
Arcyria

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Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780

Fruiting body a sessile or stalked sporangium, usually more than 0.5 mm tall, sterile filaments amongst the spores highly sculptured, spore mass red, yellow or pale grey. After the wall of the fruiting body breaks the elastic filaments amongst the spores expand in a tangled mass of very fine filaments to often twice the size of the original sporangium. Fourteen species in New Zealand.

Note that only those species listed below have images or descriptions available through the Virtual Mycota.

Stephenson, S.L. 2003: Myxomycetes of New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 3. Fungal Diversity Press.

Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780

With the characteristics of the family.
The genus Arcyria contains at least 40 species (Lado 2001), and 14 of these are known from New Zealand.

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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Anon.
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; David, J.C.; Stalpers, J.A. (2001)
Arcyriaceae Rostaf. ex Cooke 1877
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008)
Arcyriaceae Rostaf. ex Cooke 1877
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg.
Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008-)
Arcyriaceae Rostaf. ex Cooke 1877
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg.
LEONTYEV, DMITRY V.; SCHNITTLER, MARTIN et al. (2019)
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Trichiaceae Chevall. 1826
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Stephenson, S.L. (2003)
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Stephenson, S.L. (2011)
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Wiggers, F.H.

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1cb17df1-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
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1 January 2001
10 September 2020
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