Sighting 4198261
Craterium roseum
A slime mould at suppressed
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| Craterium roseum | Teresa | 24 Aug 2019 | |
| Craterium roseum | Teresa | 21 Feb 2019 |
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Plasmodium:- bright red to maroon in colour often covers extensive areas of bark and earth, likes to hide on undersurfaces of upturned tree roots and decaying wood
Sporangia:- Gregarious, magenta coloured almost smooth with clusters of lime granules. As it begins to age the sporocarps look as though they have been sprinkled with icing sugar, just prior to dehiscence when the capillitium becomes visible as a much paler but abundant elastic balls releasing the spores.
The Stalk:- is erect longitudinally wrinkled ochraceous brown and limeless, expanded at the base into a membranous hypothallus.
Capillitium:- reticulate angular violaceous pink in colour with large lime nodes present. All quite difficult to see among the bright red clusters of granules which make up the outer peridium.
Spores:- are light pinkish brown minutely spinulose with irregularly distributed clusters of darker warts.
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Location information
- Coordinates 150.067930-36.185550
- Places Kianga, NSW
Sighting information
- 1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
- 21 Mar 2010 05:54 PM Recorded on
- Teresa Recorded by
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Species information
- Craterium roseum Scientific name
- A slime mould Common name
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Synonyms
Physarum roseum
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