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Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Kirk P.M., 14-Sep-2005

Physical Description

Genus Macbrideola:

Sporocarps small, stipitate, globose to ovate. Stalk translucent, hollow (trapped air is often seen in liquid mounts). Columella usually present. Peridium fugaceous or persistent. Capillitium present or absent.

Species Macbrideola decapillata:

Sporocarps widely scattered, 0.2-0.7 mm tall. Sporotheca globose, dark brown, 0.05-0.14 mm diam. Stalk slender, translucent, hollow, often yellow at the base, brown above, continuing into the sporotheca as a columella. Peridium very thin, hyaline, early evanescent, usually leaving a collar about the stalk apex. Columella rounded at the end in forms which lack capillitium, or branching and giving rise to short protuberances or to longer, branching capillitial strands which are attenuated peripherally. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores brown, violaceous or lilaceous, globose, marked with warts which are irregular in size and often in distribution, 7-9 µm diam.

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Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Macbrideola:

There are approximately 21 species and subspecies in this genus: M. argentea · M. confusa · M. coprophila · M. cornea · M. cornea var. cornea · M. decapillata · M. declinata · M. dubia · M. herrerae · M. lamprodermoides · M. macrospora · M. martinii · M. oblonga · M. ovoidea · M. reticulospora · M. scintillans · M. scintillans var. scintillans · M. scintillans var. verrucosa · M. synsporos · M. verrucosa · M. vesiculifera

Bibliography

• Gilbert, H.C. emend. Alexop. 1967 Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes I. The genus Macbrideola Mycologia 59(1):103-116
• Ing 1999 The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.:187
• Keller and Braun 1999 Myxomycetes of Ohio Ohio Biological Survey.:108
• Martin and Alexopoulos 1969 The Myxomycetes Univ. Iowa Press.:207
• Neubert, Nowotny and Baumann 1993/1995/2000 Die Myxomyceten Baumann, Gomaringen. Vol.3:246

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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 4 providers.
• Mitchell, David W. December 21, 2007. Provided taxonomic information, physical description, and bibliographic content.
• Species Fungorum 2006.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• BeBIF Provider: National Botanic Garden Belgium - Myxomycetes
• 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:

• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:262837
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2842182