Badhamia
Badhamia utricularis ( immature )
Badhamia is a cosmopolitan genus of slime molds the Myxogastria. It includes 30 species.
Features
The fruiting bodies are sessile to pedunculated Sporokarpe or Plasmodiokarpe. The stems, if any, are variable. You can be well differentiated or form a unabgegrenzte, membrane-or thread-like connection to Hypothallus. The peridium consists of one or two layers of rare, either without or with much lime.
The scalp is composed of calcareous tubes that are networked at all levels, but it is sometimes interrupted by lime-free, thread-like, physaroide sections or entirely composed of nearly parallel, calcareous tubes that are barely connected to each other. Its not often you find a columella or Pseudocolumella.
The spores are dark brown to black, occasionally brown in mass, they are free or clumped.
Dissemination
Badhamia has been proven worldwide. The most common type is Badhamia affinis.
Systematics and history of research
The genus was first described in 1853 by Miles Joseph Berkeley, is the type species first described in 1791 as Sphaerocarpus capsulifera Badhamia capsulifera.
The genus includes 30 species Badhamia when the monotypic Badhamiopsis is treated as Dykstra and Keller as independent:
- Badhamia affinis
- Badhamia apciulospora
- Badhamia capsulifera
- Badhamia dubia
- Badhamia foliicola
- Badhamia goniospora
- Badhamia gracilis
- Badhamia lilacina
- Badhamia macrospora
- Badhamia nitens
- Badhamia orbiculata
- Badhamia panicea
- Badhamia populina
- Badhamia utricularis
- Badhamia versicolor
- Badhamia viridescens
- Badhamia ainoe
- Badhamia bibasalis
- Badhamia bispora
- Badhamia calcaripes
- Badhamia cinerascens
- Badhamia crassipella
- Badhamia delicatula
- Badhamia grandispora
- Badhamia iowensis
- Badhamia ovispora
- Badhamia rhytidosperma
- Badhamia rugulosa
- Badhamia papaveracea
- Badhamia spinispora
Evidence
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