Physarum bogoriense

Physarum bogoriense Racib. Hedwigia 37: 52. 18 F 1898
Physarum pallidum Lister, Jour. Bot. 36: 117. Ap 1898.
Sporangiate, globose, sessile or forming elongate but not reticulate plasmodiocarps, semicircular in transverse section, 0.3-0.6 mm. wide; peridium double, the outer layer thick, smooth, yellow or brown on the outside, white within, dehiscing in stellate fashion into persistent, more or less triangular, reflexed lobes, remote from the thin, colorless or somewhat iridescent inner layer; capillitium abundant, of large, white, rounded and branching lime-knots connected by slender, hyaline threads; spores dark brown in mass, bright violet by transmitted light, minutely warted, 7.5-10 p. in diameter.
Type locality: Buitenzorg, Java. Habitat: Dead leaves and plant litter.
Distribution: New York to California and southward; South America; Europe; South Africa; Asia; Australia; abundant in the tropics of both hemispheres.