Dictydiaethalium Rostaf. 1873

Details

Name scientific

Dictydiaethalium Rostaf., Vers. Syst. Mycetozoen 5 (1873)

Preferred name

Dictydiaethalium Rostaf. 1873

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

Rostaf.

Authors

Rostaf.

Publication place

Rostafińsky, J.T. (ed) 1873: Versuch eines Systems der Mycetozoen. F. Wolff.

Year published

1873

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Dictydiaethalium Rostaf. 1873

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Dictydiaethalium

Classification

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Eumycetozoa

Class

Myxomycetes

Order

Trichiales

Family

Dianemataceae

Genus

Dictydiaethalium

Subordinates

Dictydiaethalium plumbeum

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Dictydiaethalium Rostaf. 1873

Notes

Fruiting body of numerous cylindrical sporangia compacted into a flat palisade layer. Spores brown or yellow-brown. One species in New Zealand.

Note that only those species listed below have images or descriptions available through the Virtual Mycota.

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

Dictydiaethalium Rostaf. 1873

Description

Fruiting body a pseudoaethalium composed of numerous cylindrical sporangia densely compacted into a flat, palisade-like layer. Hypothallus thick, persistent. Peridium membranous, not persisting in mature fruiting bodies except at the apices of the individual sporangia and in the junctions between adjacent sporangia where the pendent filaments form a pseudocapillitium. Spores olivaceous brown to yellow or clay-coloured in mass.
Two species have been described in this genus (Lado 2001), and one of these has been collected in New Zealand.