Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Physarum superbum Hagelst. Mycologia 32: 385. 1940
Physarum aureum Brandza, Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 44: 261. 1929. Not P. aureum Pers. 1794.
Sporangiate, sessile, solitary or in small clusters, 0.4-0.6 mm. in diameter, or forming elongate plasmodiocarps up to 12 mm. in length, bright yellow; peridium rugulose, pelliculose, transparent yellow to orange-red, bearing small clusters of minute yellow or orange calcareous granules; capillitium well developed, persistent, the nodes firm, angular, unequal, pallid to bright yellow, 10-25 /i in diameter, the connecting threads hyaline or yellowish, branched; spores pale violaceous-brown, minutely echinulate, 8-10 n in diameter.
Type locality: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Habitat: Dead leaves, mosses, and decaying wood.
Distribution: New York to Ontario, south to Florida and Kansas; Europe; Japan.
- bibliographic citation
- George Willard Martin, Harold William Rickett. 1949. FUNGI; MYXOMYCETES; CERATIOMYXALES, LICEALES, TEICHIALES, STEMONITALES, PHYSARALES. North American flora. vol 1. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
