Physarum flavicomum

Physarum flavicomum Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4: 66. 1845
Physarum cupripes Berk. & Rav. ; Berk. Grevillea 2: 65. 1873. Physarum Berkeleyi Rost. Monog. 105. 1875. Didymium flavicomum Massee, Monog. 242. 1892.
Sporangia gregarious, stalked, nodding, spherical or lenticular, small, 0.3-0.6 mm. in diameter, 1-2 mm. tall, dusky yellow or sooty; peridium thin, limeless, iridescent, deciduous in patches except at the base; stalk long, slender, reddish-brown, limeless, fluted, twisted, not hollow, tapering upward from a small, radiant hypothallus; columella none; capillitium dense, persistent, the threads colorless, the nodes yellow, elongate, sometimes branching, many of the junctions limeless; spores sooty-brown in mass, bright violaceous by transmitted light, minutely punctate, 8-10 p in diameter; Plasmodium yellow or yellowish-green.
Type locality: Australia. Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: Maine to Ontario, south to South Carolina and New Mexico; Asia; Africa; Australasia.

Physarum flavicomum Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4: 66. 1845
Physarum cupripes Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 2: 65. 1873. Physarum Berkeleyi Rost. Monog. 105. 1875. Didymium flavicomum Massee, Monog. 242. 1892.
Sporangia gregarious, stalked, nodding, spherical or lenticular, small, 0.3-0.6 mm. in diameter, 1-2 mm. tall, dusky yellow or sooty; peridium thin, limeless, iridescent, deciduous in patches except at the base; stalk long, slender, reddish-brown, limeless, fluted, twisted, not hollow, tapering upward from a small, radiant hypothallus; columella none; capillitium dense, persistent, the threads colorless, the nodes yellow, elongate, sometimes branching, many of the junctions limeless; spores sooty-brown in mass, bright violaceous by transmitted light, minutely punctate, 8-10 ju in diameter; Plasmodium yellow or yellowish-green.
Type locality: Australia. Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: Maine to Ontario, south to South Carolina and New Mexico; Asia; Africa; Australasia. ' ,. > ■ * .» ' ' .-