Description
Genus Echinostelium
Small stipitate sporocarps , up to 0.5 mm tall. Spore-mass colourless, pale Emoto 1977 The Myxomycetes of Japan Sangyo Tosho, Tokyo.llow, ochre or pink. Capillitium , if present, not dichotomous. Almost all spp. are corticolous .
Physical Description
Species Echinostelium cribrarioides
Sporocarps 250-500 µm tall. Stalk 125-350 µm long, tapered upwards from an expanded base , usually stuffed with granular debris along its entire length, 5-12 µm diam. at the apex. Sporotheca 60-120 µm diam., cream to golden yellow. Columella 4-25 µm tall and 4-8 µm diam. in the type, absent in later gatherings. Capillitium branched and anastomosed to form a rigid , globose net with few free ends, the threads up to 2 µm diam. Peridium usually remaining as a membranous collar at the base of the sporotheca, the collar 6-15 µm diam. Spore-mass cream to yellow. Spores yellow to hyaline , globose, 8-10 µm diam., minutely roughened and bearing numerous raised pads . Has been confused with Clastoderma pachypus and with forms of E. minutum where some degree of capillitial anastomosing is present. The form illustrated here lacks the short columella that is present in the type.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,107 meters (0 to 3,632 feet).Mean = 264.270 meters (867.028 feet), Standard Deviation = 380.070 based on 22 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
()
- (Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
- Protozoa
- Phylum:
Myxomycota
()
- Class:
Myxomycetes
()
- Order:
Echinosteliales
()
- Family:
Echinosteliaceae
()
- Genus:
Echinostelium
()
- Specific descriptor:
cribrarioides
- Alexop., 1961
- Scientific name: - Echinostelium cribrarioides Alexop., 1961
- Specific descriptor:
cribrarioides
- Alexop., 1961
- Genus:
Echinostelium
(
- Family:
Echinosteliaceae
(
- Order:
Echinosteliales
(
- Class:
Myxomycetes
(
- Phylum:
Myxomycota
(
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Echinostelium
There are approximately 14 species in this genus:
E. apitectum · E. arboreum · E. brooksii · E. coelocephalum · E. colliculosum · E. corynophorum · E. cribrarioides · E. de · E. elachiston · E. fragile · E. ladoi · E. lunatum · E. minutum · E. paucifilum
Bibliography
- Lado and Pando 1997 Flora Mycologica Iberica Vol. 2 Myxomycetes 1 CSIC and J. Cramer.:41
- Martin and Alexopoulos 1969 The Myxomycetes Univ. Iowa Press.:98
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Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Eumycetozoa.com
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 04, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- Mitchell, David W. December 21, 2007. Provided taxonomic information, physical description, and bibliographic content.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:
- BeBIF Provider, National Botanic Garden Belgium - Myxomycetes
- GBIF-Spain, Flora Mycologica Iberica
- GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid: MA-Fungi
- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, The Myxomycetes Collection at the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg
- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, The Myxomycetes Collections at the Botanische Staatssammlung München - Collection of Hermann Neubert
- University of Arkansas, Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Eumycetozoan Databank
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3208256
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Eum-517
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14957731
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:330288
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2420428
