Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa

Fungus / parasite
colony of Verticillium anamorph of Verticillium rexianum parasitises sporangium of Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Mull.) Macbr. N. Am
Slime-Moulds 18. 1899.
By ssus fruticulosa Mull. Fl. Dan. 12: 6. pi. 718. 1777. Tremella hydnoides Jacq. Misc. Austr. 1: 145. 1778. Clavaria puccinia Batsch, Elench. Fung. 139. 1783. Clavaria byssoides Bull, Hist. Champ. Fr. 209. 1791. Puccinia byssoides J. F. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2: 1462. 1791. Isaria mucida Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 121. 1794. Ceratium hydnoides Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 358. 1805. Ceratium pyxidatum Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 359. 1805. Ceratium porioides Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 359. 1805. Ceratium aureum link, Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin Mag. 7: 39. 1815. Corynoides byssoides S. F. Gray, Nat, Arr. Brit. PI. 1: 654. 1821. Ceratium arbuscula Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 97. 1873. Ceratium Jilif or me Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 97. 1873. Ceratium crustosum Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 3: 62. 1874. Ceratium fuscum Cooke, Grevillea 8: 60. 1879. Ceratium roseum Cooke, Grevillea 8: 60. 1879. Ceratium sphaeroideum Kalchbr. & Cooke, Grevillea 9: 22. 1880. Ceratium mucidum Schroet. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3 1 : 101. 1885. Ceratiomyxa mucida Schroet. in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1*: 16. 1889. Ceratiomyxa porioides Schroet. in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. V: 16. 1889. Ceratiomyxa plumosa Atk. Bot. Gaz. 19: 377. 1894. Ceratiomyxa hydnoidea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3 8 : 507. 1898. Ceratiomyxa caesia Jahn, Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 36: 660. 1919. Ceratiomyxa Freyana Meylan, Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. 56: 65. 1925.
Fructification white or yellowish, rarely pinkish, apricot, or bluish-green, arising from a Kt-ooHiv offncpH and finmetimes fertile hvDOthallus as clusters of erect pillars which mav remain
may branch in dendroid fashion, the branches varying umerous. filiform and anastomosing, rarely forming a ferti
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