Clastoderma A. Blytt 1880

Details

Name scientific

Clastoderma A. Blytt, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 38 343 (1880)

Preferred name

Clastoderma A. Blytt 1880

Taxonomy reference

LEONTYEV, DMITRY V.; SCHNITTLER, MARTIN; STEPHENSON, STEVEN L.; NOVOZHILOV, YURI K.; SHCHEPIN, OLEG N. 2019: Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes. Phytotaxa 399(3): 209.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

A. Blytt

Authors

A. Blytt

Publication place

Blytt, A. 1880: Clastoderma, novem Myxomycetum genus. Botanische Zeitung 38: 343.

Year published

1880

Publication page

343

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Clastoderma A. Blytt 1880

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Clastoderma

Classification

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Eumycetozoa

Class

Myxomycetes

Order

Clastodermatales

Family

Clastodermataceae

Genus

Clastoderma

Subordinates

Clastoderma debaryanum

Descriptions

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

Clastoderma A. Blytt 1880

Description

Fruiting body a stalked sporangium. Sporotheca globose, brown, small (usually no more than 0.1–0.2 mm in diameter). Stalk dark, filled with granular material. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium wholly persistent or partly remaining in the form of a basal collar. Columella ranging from extremely short to about one-half the height of the sporotheca. Capillitium thread-like, branched, with some expanded portions near the extremities. Spores brown in mass.

Notes

Fruiting body a tiny stalked sporangium, with a dark stalk. Fruiting body small, less than 0.5 mm tall, delicate, stalked. Spore mass brown. A single species in New Zealand.

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