Comatricha pulchella (C. Bab.) Rostaf.

Moreno, G., Castillo, A. & Thüs, H., 2018, Critical revision of type material of Stemonitales (Myxogastria) at the Natural History Museum London (BM), Phytotaxa 344 (2), pp. 149-159 : 152

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.2.3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13719525

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scientific name

Comatricha pulchella (C. Bab.) Rostaf.
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Comatricha pulchella (C. Bab.) Rostaf. View in CoL

Sporocarps stipitate, lilac or lilac brown, up to 2.0 mm high, scattered and forming small colonies. Sporotheca ovate to cylindrical. Peridium evanescent. Stalk black, cylindrical, widened at the base, with a length of 0.2–0.5 mm. Columella cylindrical, reaching nearly to the apex of the sporotheca. Capillitium dark brown, dense, flexuous, originating along the columella. Spores globose, 7.3–10 × 7.3–10 μm, av. 8.7 × 8.7 μm, Q av = 1 (n = 25), purplish-gray, with marked warts. Under SEM, the ornamentation is formed by few and long baculae with short excrescences at the apex (figs.

4a–f).

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