Family: Arcyriaceae

Protozoa:> Myxomycota:> Myxomycetes:> Trichiales:> Arcyriaceae:> Arcyria.

An often easy to recognise family as the spore mass is typically brightly coloured, producing stalked or sessile sporangia. A capillitium often consisting of tubular threads branching at wide angles, smooth or ornamented with spines, warts, cog-like prominences or half-rings, free or attached threadlike elements.

Genus: Arcyria

Arcyria cinerea

Arcyria denudata

Arcyria incarnata

Arcyria insignis

Arcyria major

Arcyria oerstedii

Arcyria obvelata

Arcyria pomiformis

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