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Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829

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Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
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(L.) Fr.
L.
Fr.
1829
80
ICN
species
Lycogala epidendrum

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epidendrum

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Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829

On wood. Wellington (Mt. Travers).

Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829

PDD 18263, 28784, 68828.
Fruiting body an aethalium, usually several to many in a single fruiting, these scattered to crowded, subglobose to depressed-spherical or irregular from pressure, pinkish grey or yellowish brown to deep olivaceous or nearly black, 0.3–1.5 cm broad. Cortex warted or merely roughened, rather thin and fragile, especially above. Pseudocapillitium composed of long, branching and anastomosing flattened tubules marked with conspicuous transverse folds and wrinkles. Spores at first pink or grey in mass, changing to pale ochraceous or pallid, colourless by transmitted light, reticulate, 6–8 µm in diameter. Plasmodium pink to coral red or orange to cream coloured.
Cosmopolitan (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969). First reported from New Zealand by Cooke (1879), based on a specimen collected in Wellington. Also known from Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Wanganui, Hawkes Bay (Colenso 1887), Nelson, Buller, Westland, Fiordland, Mid Canterbury, South-land, and Stewart Island (Lister & Lister 1905) but undoubtedly present elsewhere.
Decaying wood and (less commonly) bark.
Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Neubert et al. (1993), Stephenson and Stempen (1994), Lado & Pando (1997), Ing (1999).
This is one of the most widely distributed and best-known myxomycetes. Lycogala epidendrum is rather variable both morphologically and in the colour of the plasmodium, and some authors (e.g., Nannenga-Bremekamp 1996, Ing 1999) have separated out several of the more consistently occurring forms as varieties or even distinct species. In such cases, the concept of Lycogala epidendrum is restricted to those forms characterized by a pure red or carmine plasmodium and a spore mass that is grey when fresh, while forms with a plasmodium that is orange or pink to cream and spores that are pink when fresh are recognized as L. terrestre. However, the distinction between the two forms has not been made in most previous studies. It appears that both occur in New Zealand

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Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (1829)
Lycogala miniatum Pers. (1794)
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829

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Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
Cook Islands
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Auckland
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Bay of Plenty
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Buller
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Coromandel
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Fiordland
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Hawkes Bay
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Marlborough
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Mid Canterbury
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Nelson
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Northland
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Southland
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Stewart Island
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Taupo
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Wairarapa
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Wanganui
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Wellington
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
New Zealand
Westland
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. 1829
United States

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taxonomic status
MEL has Colenso 1196

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1cb191e3-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
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1 March 1994
21 November 2001
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