SPORANGIA: scattered or clustered, globose, 0.8-1.1 mm. diam., short-stalked or sessile, rarely forming plasmodiocarps, purple-brown, shining with iridescent colors; sporangial wall membranous, colorless above, purplish brown below.
STALK: weak, black, 0.1 to 0.5 mm. high.
COLUMELLA: cylindrical, reaching to half or two thirds the height of the sporangium, absent in the plasmodiocarp forms.
CAPILLITIUM: a network of pale or dark purplish brown, flexuose threads, stouter below, slender and colorless at the tips.
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SPORES: Dark purplish brown, 11-18 .µm in diameter, regularly reticulate with narrow, raised bands, that form a net with 8 to 24 meshes on the hemisphere, and show as a border 0.5-1.5 .µm wide.
Plasmodium: dark brown. | HABITAT: On herbaceous stalks
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan, known from Auckland. |
