Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780

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Name scientific

Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780

Preferred name

Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Combination authors

F.H. Wigg.

Original authors

Authors

(L.) F.H. Wigg.

Publication place

Wiggers, F.H. In: Primitiae Florae Holsaticae. 112 p..

Year published

1780

Publication page

112

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Mucor septicus L. 1763

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Fuligo septica

Classification

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Eumycetozoa

Class

Myxomycetes

Order

Physarales

Family

Physaraceae

Genus

Fuligo

Species

septica

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Nothofagus

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2000)

has host

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

Stephenson, S.L. (2003)

has host

Aphelandra squarrosa Nees

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Bryophyta Schimp.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Steud.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyatheales

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dicranoloma billardierei (Brid.) Paris 1904

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Hakea

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Ligustrum

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Metrosideros kermadecensis W.R.B.Oliv.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus radiata D.Don

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Weinmannia silvicola A.Cunn.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

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

Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780

Collections Examined

PDD 68487, 68756, 72947

Description

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.

Distribution

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.

Habitat

Decaying wood and bark, forest floor litter, wood debris, and soil; sometimes fruiting on living plants.

Illustrations

Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Stephenson & Stempen (1994), Neubert et al. (1995), Ing (1999).

Notes

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).