Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Tubifera microsperma (Berk. & Curt.) G. W. Martin,
Mycologia39:461. 1947.
Licea stipitata Berk. & Rav.; Berk. & Curt. Proc. Am. Acad. 4: 125. 1860. Not L. stipitata DC.
1815. Licea microsperma Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 2: 68. 1873. Tubulina stipitata Rost. Monog. 223. 1875. Tubifera stipitata Macbr. N. Am. Slime-Moulds 157. 1899.
Sporangia angular-cylindric, to 4 mm. tall and 0.4 mm. wide, crowded into a subglobose or hemispheric pseudoaethalium upon a spongy, stem-like, sulcate hypothallus 2-6 mm. tall; peridium thin, translucent, evanescent; total height to 10 mm.; spores umber-brown in mass, reticulate over about two-thirds of the surface, globose, 4.5-5.5 n in diameter; Plasmodium white, then red.
Type locality: South Carolina.
Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: Widely distributed in temperate and tropical North America; Hawaii; South
- 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
