Description
Physical Description
Species Badhamia viridescens
Sporocarps
0.3-0.4 mm diam. and slightly less tall, scattered
, sessile, pulvinate
, creamy-white, shining. Peridium yellow-brown, with white lime, with wide limy and slender ± perpendicular limeless tubular
invaginations, the apices of the larger invaginations corresponding to dimples in the peridium. Capillitium
scanty, in part merging with the invaginations, consisting of simple
and ± straight or undulate
or scantily branched and anastomosed, violet-brown tubules
, with few or no lime granules
, with axillary
membranous expansions which are sometimes perforated or with dark, bulbous, limeless swellings. Spores pale
grey, 13.5-15 µm diam., with dense, dark spinules
up to 0.5 µm long.
Plasmodium pale brown to almost colourless. Hypothallus very thin, colourless. Sessile, scattered to gregarious
, varying from pulvinate sporocarps to thin, usually flattened, effused plasmodiocarps which are elongate
to irregular and up to 18 mm long, occasionally globose
on a narrowed base
and then 0.4-0.7 mm diam., usually grey or white, or light brown when superficial deposits of lime are sparse. Peridium membranous, translucent
, brown to colourless, with scattered lime or sometimes with a dense coating
of lime granules or, when lime is absent, often distinctly pitted
at the origins
of threads. Dehiscence irregular. Myxocarps basally dark brown. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores violet-brown, verruculose
, 9-11 µm diam.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,793 meters (0 to 9,163 feet).Mean = 467.860 meters (1,534.974 feet), Standard Deviation = 374.170 based on 70 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Protozoa
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Phylum:
Myxomycota
()
- Class:
Myxomycetes
()
- Order:
Physarales
()
- Family:
Physaraceae
()
- Genus:
Badhamia
()
- Specific descriptor:
viridescens
- Meyl., 1921
- Scientific name: - Badhamia viridescens Meyl., 1921
- Specific descriptor:
viridescens
- Meyl., 1921
- Genus:
Badhamia
(
- Family:
Physaraceae
(
- Order:
Physarales
(
- Class:
Myxomycetes
(
- Phylum:
Myxomycota
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
. Latest taxonomic
scrutiny: Kirk P.M.
, 14-Sep-2005
Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Kirk P.M., 14-Sep-2005.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Badhamia
There are approximately 3 species in this genus:
B. bibasilis · B. tirolensis · B. viridescens
Bibliography
- (J. Yamashiro) T.E. Brooks and H.W. Keller, in H.W. Keller and T.E. Brooks 1976 Corticolous Myxomycetes IV: Badhamiopsis, a new genus for Badhamia ainoae Mycologia 68:834-841
- Emoto 1977 The Myxomycetes of Japan Sangyo Tosho, Tokyo.:142 [as Badhamia ainoae]
- H.Z. Li 1989, in anon. (ed.) Fungi and Lichens Shennongjia 26
- Ing 1999 The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.:233
- Keller and Braun 1999 Myxomycetes of Ohio Ohio Biological Survey.:119
- Martin and Alexopoulos 1969 The Myxomycetes Univ. Iowa Press.:251 [as Badhamia ainoae]
- Nann.-Bremek. and Yamamoto, Y. 1988 Badhamiopsis cavifera (Myxomycetes), a new species from Japan Journal of Japanese Botany 63(6):228-230
- Nannenga-Bremekamp 1991 A guide to Temperate Myxomycetes Biopress Ltd., Bristol.:181
- Yamamoto, Y. 1998 The Myxomycete Biota of Japan Toyo Shorin Publishing Co., Ltd.:375
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Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Eumycetozoa.com
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Mitchell, David W. December 21, 2007. Provided taxonomic information, physical description, and bibliographic content.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:
- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns: The Myxomycetes Collections at the Botanische Staatssammlung München - Collection of Hermann Neubert
- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns: The Myxomycetes Collections at the Botanische Staatssammlung München - Main Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3166134
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Eum-102
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14375308
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:281859
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3420077
