Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]

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Name scientific

Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]

Preferred name

Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Nann.-Bremek.

Original authors

F.H. Wigg.

Authors

(F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek.

Publication place

Nannenga-Bremekamp, N.E. 1975[1974]: De Nederlandse Myxomyceten. Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorishe Verenigin.

Year published

1975

Year on publication

1974

Publication page

209

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Stemonitis typhina F.H. Wigg. 1780

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Stemonitopsis typhina

Classification

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Eumycetozoa

Class

Myxomycetes

Order

Stemonitidales

Family

Amaurochaetaceae

Genus

Stemonitopsis

Species

typhina

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Nothofagus

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

has host

Hoheria angustifolia Raoul

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

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

Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]

Collections Examined

PDD 17613, 28573.

Description

Fruiting body a stalked sporangium, scattered to gregarious, 2–5 mm high, erect. Sporotheca cylindrical to somewhat ovate and tapering above, erect, dark or purplish brown or occasionally grey, 0.2–0.6 mm in diameter. Stalk slender, dark red to nearly black, typically about half the total height of the sporangium, often covered with a silvery film. Hypothallus contiguous for a group of sporangia, reddish-brown. Peridium membranous, silvery, usually persisting in mature fruiting bodies as scattered patches or sometimes as a shallow calyculus at the base of the sporotheca. Capillitium a dense network of pale brown threads with numerous anastomoses. Spores brown in mass, very pale lilac-brown by transmitted light, faintly punctate with scattered clusters of dark warts, 6–8 µm in diameter. Plasmodium translucently white.

Distribution

Cosmopolitan (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969), although most common in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. First reported (as Stemonitis typhoides) from New Zealand by Berkeley (1855), based on a specimen collected by W. [and elsewhere]Colenso in Hawkes Bay. Colenso (1887) later reported the species from the same locality. Also known from Auckland, Wellington, Fiordland, Dunedin (Lister & Lister 1905), Southland, the Auckland Islands, and Stewart Island (Lister & Lister 1905). This is the most common species of Stemnitopsis in New Zealand.

Habitat

Decaying wood and (less commonly) bark.

Illustrations

Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Stephenson & Stempen (1994), Ing (1999), Neubert et al. (2000).

Notes

The clusters of dark warts on the spores are usually quite evident and make this a relatively easy species to identify.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Comatricha typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Rostaf. 1874

Comatricha typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Rostaf. (1874)

Rostafińsky, J.T. (1874)

Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. 1894