Overview
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Description
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Physical Description
Species Hemitrichia serpula
Forming plasmodiocarps, often covering several square centimetres, plasmodiocarps terete , branching freely and usually everywhere reticulate , bright yellow, rusty or tawny . Peridium thin, transparent. Dehiscence longitudinal , irregular. Hypothallus similar to the peridium or a little darker, the margins between adjoining segments often separated by a black line . Capillitium variable, forming a tangle of long, yellow tubules , sparingly branched, the free tips spiny , decorated with 3-4 spiral bands which bear spines up to 5 µm long, and traces of longitudinal striae, 4-6(-8) µm diam. Spore-mass golden yellow. Spores pale yellow, globose , coarsely reticulate, the surface between the meshes smooth , 11-16 µm diam. Plasmodium white, then yellow.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Class:
Gastropoda
()
- Cuvier, 1795
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
()
- J.E. Gray, 1840
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
()
- (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
()
- A. Schmidt, 1855
- Superfamily:
Helicoidea
()
- Rafinesque, 1815
- Family:
Bradybaenidae
()
- Pilsbry, 1934 (1898)
- Genus:
Hemitrichia
()
- auct., Möllendorff, 1889
- Specific descriptor:
serpula
- (Scop.) Rostaf. ex Lister, 1894
- Form:
ften covering several square centimetres,
plasm
- Scientific name: - Hemitrichia serpula (Scop.) Rostaf. ex Lister, 1894
- Form:
ften covering several square centimetres,
plasm
- Specific descriptor:
serpula
- (Scop.) Rostaf. ex Lister, 1894
- Genus:
Hemitrichia
(
- Family:
Bradybaenidae
(
- Superfamily:
Helicoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
(
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
(
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
(
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
(
- Class:
Gastropoda
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
(
Synonyms
Arcyria serpula (Scop.) Massee 1892 • Hemiarcyria serpula (Scop.) Rostaf. 1875 • Hyporhamma serpula (Scop.) Ladó 2001 • Mucor serpula Scop. 1772 • Trichia serpula (Scop.) Pers. 1797
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 23-Oct-2008
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Members of the genus Hemitrichia
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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 .
- 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 .
- Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. Colombo: Skien; 1901-1924. url p. 293, p. 319, p. 364.
- Annual report of the Michigan Academy of Science. Lansing, Mich.: The Academy, 1916-1921. url p. 162.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 37 1969 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 405, p. 408, p. 410, p. 419.
- Introductory mycology / Constantine J. Alexopoulos, Charles W. Mims; artwork by Sung-Huang Sun and Raymond W. Scheetz. New York: Wiley, c1979. url p. 84, p. 90.
- New York State Museum bulletin. Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1916-1944. url p. 111.
- Report of the Michigan Academy of Science. Lansing, Mich.: The Academy, 1904-1916. url .
- Report of the State Botanist. Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1898-1925. url .
- The American midland naturalist. 1 1909-1910 Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame. url p. 42.
- 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 .
- 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. 252, p. 294, p. 295, p. 9.
- 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. 239, p. 259.
- The North American slime-moulds; being a list of all species of Myxomycetes hitherto described from North America, including Central America, by Thomas H. Macbride. .. New York, Macmillan Co.;1899. url p. 201.
- The Ottawa naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url .
- The flora of the town of Southold, Long Island, and Gardiner's Island / New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1914? url p. 204.
- Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 161, p. 204, p. 39.
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
- Herbier de la Guyane
- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns: The Fungal Collection at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
- 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 Hermann Neubert
- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns: The Myxomycetes Collections at the Botanische Staatssammlung München - Collection of Martin Schnittler
- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns: The Myxomycetes Collections at the Botanische Staatssammlung München - Main Collection
- Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum - Herbarium GJO: Herbarium GJO
- The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Botanical Museum, Copenhagen, the Lichen Herbarium
- The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Danish Mycological Society, fungal records database
- University of Arkansas: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Eumycetozoan Databank
- University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU: Herbarium WU
- Utah State University: USU-UTC Specimen Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3085496
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Eum-455
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14386629
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:179218
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2005192
Footnotes
- Mean = 334.830 meters (1,098.524 feet), Standard Deviation = 777.140 based on 589 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
