Trichia decipiens

Trichia decipiens, fructifications

Trichia decipiens is a cosmopolitan species of slime mold from the order of Trichiida.

Description

The Plasmodium is white and pink to red when ripe. The small to large accumulations forming, glossy olive to yellow- brown or olive-colored fruiting bodies are usually stalked, rarely sessile sporangia. They are cone-shaped to pear- shaped, to 3 mm tall and measure 0.6 to 0.8, rarely up to 1.3 millimeters in diameter.

The Hypothallus is widened, shiny colorless to brown and membranous. The cylindrical stem is wrinkled, dark brown at the base, becoming lighter towards the top, and filled with up to 1 mm long, spore -like vesicles. The solid or membranous peridium is yellow on thin bodies often translucent, down but thickened and outlasting as deeper until rudimentary shallow Calyculus.

This is the mass olive to olive - yellow scalp from straight- grown, simple or branched, olivgelben deep, 5 to 6 microns thick elaters that are in relief as three to five protruding spiral strands and run towards the ends pointed. The spore mass is olive yellow to olivaceous, pale olive yellow in transmitted light, sometimes with an even paler section. The spores are 10 to 13 microns in diameter, they mostly have a reticulated surface, the remaining surface is densely warty or prickly.

Distribution and ecology

The species is distributed worldwide. It is found throughout the year on dead wood of coniferous and deciduous trees. The fungus is among other things associated with species of the genera Trichia, Arcyria and Cribraria as well as the blood and milk mushroom Stemonitis typhina.

Systematics and botanical history

Trichia decipiens was first described in 1795 by Christian Hendrik Persoon using a Aufsammlung 1778 from a forest in Chemnitz as Arcyria decipiens and 1899 transferred by Macbride in the genus Trichia.

Evidence

• Myxogastrien
• Myxogastria