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Description
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Genus Arcyria
Sporocarps stipitate or sessile but neither pulvinate nor heaped. Peridium completely or partly fugaceous above and leaving a morphologically distinct calyculus which is cup-, funnel- or saucer- shaped. Capillitium a complete network of tubules , variously decorated with cogs, warts , spines, etc.
Physical Description
Species Arcyria insignis
Sporocarps gregarious or clustered or occasionally solitary, stalked . Sporotheca bright rose to flesh-coloured or pale salmon, occasionally fading to yellowish, ovate or cylindric , 0.5-1.5(-3) mm tall. Stalk rather short, 0.2-0.4 mm long, reddish, filled with spore-like cells . Calyculus somewhat pleated , nearly smooth or faintly reticulate within. Capillitium a close network of delicate threads 2-3 µm diam., sometimes with a few bulbous free ends, marked with transverse bands and spines arranged in a loose spiral , in part minutely spinulose to nearly smooth, attached to the calyculus. Spore-mass pinkish. Spores colourless, with a few scattered inconspicuous warts , 6-8 µm diam. Plasmodium watery-white.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,877 meters (0 to 9,439 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
()
- (Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
- Subkingdom:
Sarcomastigota
()
- Phylum:
Amoebozoa
()
- (Lühe, 1913) Corliss, 1984
- Subphylum:
Conosa
()
- T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Mycetozoa
()
- (de Bary, 1859 ex Rostafinski, 1873) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Class:
Myxogastrea
()
- (E.M. Fries, 1829) J. Feltgen, 1889, orthog. emend.
- Family:
Trichiidae
()
- Rostafinski, 1873
- Genus:
Arcyria
()
- Wiggers, 1780
- Specific descriptor:
insignis
- Kalchbr. & Cooke, 1882
- Scientific name: - Arcyria insignis Kalchbr. & Cooke, 1882
- Specific descriptor:
insignis
- Kalchbr. & Cooke, 1882
- Genus:
Arcyria
(
- Family:
Trichiidae
(
- Class:
Myxogastrea
(
- Infraphylum:
Mycetozoa
(
- Subphylum:
Conosa
(
- Phylum:
Amoebozoa
(
- Subkingdom:
Sarcomastigota
(
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 23-Oct-2008
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Members of the genus Arcyria
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Further Reading
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- A monograph of the Mycetozoa being a descriptive catalogue of the species in the Herbarium of the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, sold by Longmans & Co., 1894. url , p. 184, p. 188.
- A monograph of the Mycetozoa, being a descriptive catalogue of the species in the herbarium of the British Museum. Illustrated with seventy-eight plates and fifty-one woodcuts. London, Printed by Order of the Trustees, Sold by Longmans [etc.]1894. url , .
- A monograph of the Mycetozoa: a descriptive catalogue of the species in the Herbarium of the British Museum / by Arthur Lister. London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1911. url p. 233, p. 240, p. 242.
- A monography of the Myxogastres. By George Massee. London, Methuen & Co., 1892. url p. 148.
- Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. Colombo: Skien; 1901-1924. url p. 366.
- Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cie?ncias Naturais. Lisboa, Sociedade Portuguesa de Cie?ncias Naturais, 1908- url p. 60.
- Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 1 1949 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 46.
- Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: [s.n., url .
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 37 1969 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 405.
- Minnesota botanical studies. Minneapolis, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. url p. 466.
- Monograph of the Myxogastres. London, Methuen, 1892. url p. 148.
- Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 489.
- Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. Indianapolis, Ind.[s.n.] url p. 292, p. 292.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 434.
- The Canadian field-naturalist. 64 1950 Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 181.
- The Mycetozoa of North America, based upon the specimens in the herbarium of the New York botanical garden, by Robert Hagelstein. .. Mineola, N. Y., The author, [1944] url , p. 252, p. 253.
- The Myxomycetes; a descriptive list of the known species with special reference to those occurring in North America, by Thomas H. Macbride and G.W. Martin. .. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1934. url p. 273.
- The Natural history of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island / edited by Carl Skottsberg. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1920-1956. url .
- The North American slime-moulds; a descriptive list of all species of myxomycetes hitherto reported from the continent of North America, with notes on some extralimital species, by Thomas H. Macbride. London, Macmillan Co.;1922. url p. 256.
- Transactions of the British Mycological Society. London: Cambridge University Press, [1897-c1988] url p. 250.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:
- BeBIF Provider: National Botanic Garden Belgium - Myxomycetes
- GBIF New Zealand: NZFUNGI - Collections of the New Zealand National Fungal Herbarium (PDD)
- 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 Martin Schnittler
- Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum - Herbarium GJO: Herbarium GJO
- University of Arkansas: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Eumycetozoan Databank
- University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU: Herbarium WU
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3071796
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Eum-25
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14390123
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:162948
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2859554
Footnotes
- Mean = 396.970 meters (1,302.395 feet), Standard Deviation = 748.300 based on 144 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
