Description
Genus Echinostelium
Small stipitate sporocarps , up to 0.5 mm tall. Spore-mass colourless, pale Emoto 1977 The Myxomycetes of Japan Sangyo Tosho, Tokyo.llow, ochre or pink. Capillitium , if present, not dichotomous. Almost all spp. are corticolous .
Physical Description
Species Echinostelium coelocephalum
Sporocarps 47-70 µm tall. Stalk 12-40 µm long, expanded below and tapered upward, 1.5-2.5 µm diam. at the apex. Sporotheca 30-40 µm diam., white to yellow. Columella globose , spore-like, hyaline , 9-12 µm diam., bearing thickened pads on the upper hemisphere at points of spore contact. Peridium persisting below as a thickened collar at the base of the columella, the collar 5-8 µm diam. Spore-mass white to yellow. Spores hyaline, globose, 8-12 µm diam., minutely roughened, bearing pads of uniform thickness at points of spore-to-spore contact, the pads c. 1 µm thick and c. 5 µm diam.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
()
- (Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
- Protozoa
- Phylum:
Myxomycota
()
- Class:
Myxomycetes
()
- Order:
Echinosteliales
()
- Family:
Echinosteliaceae
()
- Genus:
Echinostelium
()
- Specific descriptor:
coelocephalum
- T.E.Brooks & H.W.Keller, 1977
- Scientific name: - Echinostelium coelocephalum T.E.Brooks & H.W.Keller, 1977
- Specific descriptor:
coelocephalum
- T.E.Brooks & H.W.Keller, 1977
- Genus:
Echinostelium
(
- Family:
Echinosteliaceae
(
- Order:
Echinosteliales
(
- Class:
Myxomycetes
(
- Phylum:
Myxomycota
(
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Kirk P.M. , 14-Sep-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Echinostelium
There are approximately 14 species in this genus:
E. apitectum · E. arboreum · E. brooksii · E. coelocephalum · E. colliculosum · E. corynophorum · E. cribrarioides · E. de · E. elachiston · E. fragile · E. ladoi · E. lunatum · E. minutum · E. paucifilum
Bibliography
- Ing 1999 The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.:34
- Keller and Braun 1999 Myxomycetes of Ohio Ohio Biological Survey.:71 pl.3b
- Lado and Pando 1997 Flora Mycologica Iberica Vol. 2 Myxomycetes 1 CSIC and J. Cramer.:38
- T.E. Brooks and H.W. Keller, in H.W. Keller and T.E. Brooks 1977 Corticolous Myxomycetes V: Observations on the genus Echinostelium Mycologia 68(6):1204-1220
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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:
- 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
- University of Arkansas: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Eumycetozoan Databank
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3193169
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Eum-514
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:313459
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2841814
