Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
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Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
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Nomenclature
(L.) F.H. Wigg.
L.
F.H. Wigg.
1780
112
ICN
species
Fuligo septica
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Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
PDD 68487, 68756, 72947
Fruiting body an aethalium, solitary to gregarious but usually not widely separated, pulvinate, usually relatively large, 2–20 cm wide or long and 1–3 cm thick. Cortex usually fairly thick, calcareous, fragile, white to pale or bright pink or red to bright yellow. Capillitium consisting of white, yellow or reddish fusiform lime nodes connected by hyaline threads, sometimes scanty. Spores dark grey or dull black in mass, light purplish brown by transmitted light, nearly smooth to minutely spiny, 6–9 µm in diameter. Plasmodium usually yellow, sometimes white or creamy.
Cosmopolitan (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969). First reported (as Aethalium septicum) from New Zealand by Berkeley (1855), based on a specimen collected by W. Colenso in Northland. Also known from the Kermadec Islands, Auckland (Kirk 1872), Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Wanganui, Wellington (Buchanan 1874), Gisborne, Hawkes Bay (Colenso 1887), Nelson, Westland, Fiordland, North Canterbury, Mid Canterbury (Armstrong 1880), South Canterbury (Lister & Lister 1905), Otago Lakes, Dunedin (Lister & Lister 1905), and the Auckland Islands.
Decaying wood and bark, forest floor litter, wood debris, and soil; sometimes fruiting on living plants.
Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Stephenson & Stempen (1994), Neubert et al. (1995), Ing (1999).
Fuligo septica is one of the most common, conspicuous, and best known of all myxomycetes. It is exceedingly variable, and several forms that appear to be consistently different from what is considered the typical expression for the species have been recognised as distinct taxonomic entities (either varieties or separate species) by some authors (e.g., Neubert et al. 1995, Ing 1999).
Taxonomic concepts
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. (1780)
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1 January 2001
20 November 2001
