Comatricha elegans (Racib.) G. Lister 1909

Comatricha elegans (Racib.) Lister, Guide Brit
Mycet. ed. 3. 31. 1909.
Rostafinskia elegans Racib. Rozp. Akad. Umiej. 12: 78. Raciborskia elegans A. Berl. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 7: 401.
1884. 1888.
Sporangia gregarious or scattered, stipitate, globose or ovate, purplish-brown, 0.3-0.5 mm. in diameter, their total height 1-2 mm.; peridium silvery, evanescent, rarely persistent; stalk long, slender, subulate, 0.8-1.6 mm. in length; columella short, divided below the center of the sporangium into several stout branches which give rise to the capillitium; capillitium rather loose, the threads flexuous, slender, anastomosing; spores dark purplish-brown or pale reddishlilac in mass, pale violaceous-brown by transmitted light, minutely spinulose, 8-10 ji in diameter; Plasmodium waterywhite.
Type locality: Poland.
Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: New Brunswick to Washington (state), south to Georgia and California; Europe; southern Asia and Japan.

Collaria elegans is a species of slime mold in the family Lamprodermataceae.