SPOROCARPS: A pseudoaethalium composed of numerous sessile sporangia crowded together, individual sporangia cylindrical to ovate, pale umber to reddish brown or purplish brown, up to 0.4 mm in diameter and 5 mm tall with the entire structure reaching 150 mm or more in size.
HYPOTHALLUS: well developed, membranous to spongy, colourless to pallid.
HYPOTHALLUS: membranous, thin, persisting in mature fruiting bodies except at the individual sporangia, where it tends to break away.
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SPORES: Umber brown in mass, pallid by transmitted light, finely reticulated over three quarters of the surface, 6 - 8 µm in diameter.
PLASMODIUM: Watery and colourless, becoming milky white then changing through rose to brown. | HABITAT: Decaying wood or wood debris, occasionally on forest floor leaf litter.
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan, known from Auckland, Taranaki, Bay of Plenty, Wanganui, Gisborne, Marlborough Sounds, Southland. |
