Species: Physarum hongkongense Chao H. Chung Go Back
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Description:
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SPORANGIA: Sporocarpous to simple plasmodiocarpous, gregarious, laterally strongly compressed, constricted at the base,0.3-0.6 mm diam. wide.

HYPOTHALLUS: inconspicuous

STALK: absent.

PERIDIUM: double, the outer layer calcareous, crustose, bright yellow outside and white within, the inner layer membranous, whitish due to the sparse lime deposits, wrinkled and forming reticulations. Dehiscence along a preformed apical fissure.

COLUMELLA: absent.

CAPILLITIUM: reticulate, consisting of hyaline threads and rounded to somewhat angular white nodes. Spore-mass blackish brown.

 
SPORES: pale brown, globose, 7.5-8 µm diam., evenly verruculose.

PLASMODIUM: ?		HABITAT: on leaf litter.

DISTRIBUTION: Auckland
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Macro images:
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Physarum hongkongenseScale bar
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Interesting that it not quite as yellow as it should be. Notice the snail shall in the middleScale = mm.
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Physarum hongkongenseScale bar 
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Physarum hongkongenseScale bar 
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